Asylum Piece And Other Stories

Author : Anna Kavan
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asylum Piece and Other Stories written by Anna Kavan and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of stories, mostly interlinked and largely autobiographical, chart the descent of the narrator from the onset of neurosis to final incarceration at a Swiss clinic. The sense of paranoia, of persecution by a foe or force that is never given a name evokes The Trial by Franz Kafka, the writer with whom Kavan is most often compared, though Kavan's deeply personal, restrained and almost foreign-accented style has no true model. The same characters who recur throughout -- the protagonist's unhelpful 'advisor', the friend/lover who abandons her at the clinic, and an assortment of deluded companions -- are sketched without a trace of the rage, self-pity or sentiment that have marked more recent prozac memoirs." -- From publisher's website.

Author : William Seabrook
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486798100
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asylum written by William Seabrook and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This dramatic memoir recaptures William Seabrook's experiences during an eight-month stay at a Westchester mental hospital in the early 1930s. Seabrook, who was a renowned journalist, voluntarily committed himself for acute alcoholism. His account offers an honest, self-critical look at addiction and treatment in the days before Alcoholics Anonymous and other modern programs. William Seabrook is most famous for introducing the word Zombie to Western culture"--

Author : Anna Kavan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asylum Piece written by Anna Kavan and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Machado de Assis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The psychiatrist, and other stories written by Machado de Assis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Zadie Smith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201266
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Other People written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character The Book of Other People is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. By any measure, creating character is at the heart of the fictional enterprise, and this book concentrates on writers who share a talent for making something recognizably human out of words (and, in the case of the graphic novelists, pictures). But the purpose of the book is variety: straight "realism"-if such a thing exists-is not the point. There are as many ways to create character as there are writers, and this anthology features a rich assortment of exceptional examples. The writers featured in The Book of Other People include: Aleksandar Hemon Nick Hornby Hari Kunzru Toby Litt David Mitchell George Saunders Colm Tóibín Chris Ware, and more Read Zadie Smith’s newest novel, Swing Time.

Author : Wheeler Antabanez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944697013
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Asylum written by Wheeler Antabanez and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Art. The broken windows of the abandoned sanitarium are foreboding and ominous, yet darkly inviting. The inmates have long since departed, but their suffering can still be felt imprinted on the stagnant air of the empty wards. The door at the front of the overgrown madhouse has been ripped from its hinges. It would be easy to cross the threshold, yet we hesitate to enter... Having spent a lifetime exploring the long-abandoned Essex Mountain Sanatorium and Overbrook Psychiatric Hospital in Northern New Jersey, Wheeler Antabanez, artist, writer, and intrepid explorer of New Jersey's abandoned and defiled places, is uniquely qualified to open doors at the Old Asylum that no one even knew existed. In these stories, illustrated with remarkably evocative paintings by the author, the broken hulk of the abandoned mental hospital comes vividly back to life, reanimated by a spirit of risk-taking, transgressive adventure, macabre humor, and the author's comprehensive artistic and personal mission to create from the ruins of our collective past an imaginative, vibrantly living whole. The book contains reproductions of a series of paintings by the author.

Author : Stanislaw Lem
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262366657
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth and Other Stories written by Stanislaw Lem and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader could wish for. Many of these stories feature artificial intelligences or artificial life forms, long a Lem preoccupation; some feature quite insane theories of cosmology or evolution. All are thought provoking and scathingly funny. Written from 1956 to 1993, the stories are arranged in chronological order. In the title story, "The Truth," a scientist in an insane asylum theorizes that the sun is alive; "The Journal" appears to be an account by an omnipotent being describing the creation of infinite universes--until, in a classic Lem twist, it turns out to be no such thing; in "An Enigma," beings debate whether offspring can be created without advanced degrees and design templates. Other stories feature a computer that can predict the future by 137 seconds, matter-destroying spores, a hunt in which the prey is a robot, and an electronic brain eager to go on the lam. These stories are peak Lem, exploring ideas and themes that resonate throughout his writing.

Author : Aidan Higgins
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780714537474
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asylum and Other Stories written by Aidan Higgins and published by Calder Publications Limited. This book was released on 1978-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeannette de Beauvoir
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466844035
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asylum written by Jeannette de Beauvoir and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martine LeDuc is the director of PR for the mayor's office in Montreal. When four women are found brutally murdered and shockingly posed on park benches throughout the city over several months, Martine's boss fears a PR disaster for the still busy tourist season, and Martine is now also tasked with acting as liaison between the mayor and the police department. The women were of varying ages, backgrounds and bodytypes and seemed to have nothing in common. Yet the macabre presentation of their bodies hints at a connection. Martine is paired with a young detective, Julian Fletcher, and together they dig deep into the city's and the country's past, only to uncover a dark secret dating back to the 1950s, when orphanages in Montreal and elsewhere were converted to asylums in order to gain more funding. The children were subjected to horrific experiments such as lobotomies, electroshock therapy, and psychotropic medication, and many of them died in the process. The survivors were supposedly compensated for their trauma by the government and the cases seem to have been settled. So who is bearing a grudge now, and why did these four women have to die? Not until Martine finds herself imprisoned in the terrifying steam tunnels underneath the old asylum does she put the pieces together. And it is almost too late for her...in Jeannette de Beauvoir's Asylum.

Author : Stephen A. Alongi
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359875742
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asylum and Other Stories written by Stephen A. Alongi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Test out your threshold of terror with these tales of monsters and demons, journeys across the world and into other dimensions, and maybe find out the most frightening creature of all: ourselves! Strap in for 15 new horrifying stories that will leave you gasping for air and begging for mercy.