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Author : John R. Christopher
Publisher : Christophers Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9781879436084
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Incurables written by John R. Christopher and published by Christophers Enterprises. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Bassoff
Publisher : Down & Out Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Incurables written by Jon Bassoff and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1953. Disgraced in the psychiatric hospital where he’d practiced for nearly thirty years, Dr. Walter Freeman has taken to traversing the country and proselyting about a very new kind of salvation: the transorbital lobotomy. With an ice pick and a hammer, Freeman promises to cure depression and catatonia, delusions and psychosis, with a procedure as simple and safe as curing a toothache. When he enters the backwater Oklahoma town of Burnwood, however, his own sanity will be tested. Around him swirls a degenerate and delusional cast of characters—a preacher who believes his son to be the Messiah, a demented and violent young prostitute, and a trio of machete-wielding brothers—all weaved into a grotesque narrative that reveals how blind faith in anything can lead to destruction. Praise for THE INCURABLES: “A twisted tour through the asylum that Jon Bassoff calls his mind. The Incurables is filled with the mad and desperate, but ultimately it’s the humanity that Bassoff finds in his broken characters that sets this novel apart. Don’t get me wrong though, The Incurables is certifiably insane—and I mean that in the best possible way.” —Johnny Shaw, Anthony Award-winning author of Big Maria “Jon Bassoff’s The Incurables practically bleeds off the page with a dark poetry so intense, that you can still feel it after your eyes are closed. It’s the rarest type of novel that won’t only sink its teeth into you, it will leave you relishing the scar.” —Todd Robinson, author of The Hard Bounce “With influences and homage as wide and varied as The Alcoholics, Cuckoo’s Nest, and ‘Murder in the Red Barn,’ The Incurables oddly and most affectionately invokes Nick Cave—but not Cave the singer, Cave the novelist—with its backwoods preachers, hellbent harlots, and dead-eyed dreamers. Think And the Ass Saw the Angel, only superiorly written, carved by prose that cuts deep. Bassoff’s crooked trip to hell is a powerful rumination on the beauty of the damned.” —Joe Clifford, author of Junkie Love and Lamentation “The Incurables reads like an unhinged murder ballad. In it, Bassoff’s crafted a violent—and oddly affecting—ode to the outcasts, the downtrodden, the broken, the grotesque, and the misunderstood.” —Chris Holm, author of The Big Reap “The Incurables is terse, sparse and brutal, yet strangely touching at times. Another winner from the Bassoff pen.” —William Meikle, author of The Hole “Imagine One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as re-written by Elmore Leonard. A mesmerizing novel.” —Ken Bruen, Shamus Award-winning author of The Guards
Author : Mark Brazaitis
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268075646
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Incurables written by Mark Brazaitis and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his latest collection of literary fiction, Mark Brazaitis evokes with sympathy, insight, and humor the lives of characters in a small Ohio town. The ten short stories of The Incurables limn the mental landscape of people facing conditions they believe are insolvable, from the oppressive horrors of mental illness to the beguiling and baffling complexities of romantic and familial love. In the book’s opening story, “The Bridge,” a new sheriff must confront a suicide epidemic as well as his own deteriorating mental health. In “Classmates,” a man sets off to visit the wife of a classmate who has killed himself. Is he hoping to write a story about his classmate or to observe the aftermath of what his own suicide attempt, if successful, would have been like? In the title story, a down-on-his-luck porn actor returns to his hometown and winds up in the mental health ward of the local hospital, where he meets a captivating woman. Other stories in the collection include “A Map of the Forbidden,” about a straight-laced man who is tempted to cheat on his wife after his adulterous father dies, and “The Boy behind the Tree,” about a problematic father-son relationship made more so by the arrival on the scene of a young man the son’s age. In “I Return,” a father narrates a story from the afterlife, discovering as he does so that he is not as indispensable to his family as he had believed.
Author : Gordon C. Cook
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1315343169
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Incurables Movement written by Gordon C. Cook and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This significant work records the history of the pioneering British Home and Hospital for Incurables, founded in 1861. It examines the social, political and medical climate through the years and charts the fascinating and important changes over this time. It provides a vital overview for historians of medicine, healthcare and social development. Physicians, nurses and managers involved in care of the elderly and long-term sick will find the research enlightening, as will local historians and anyone with an interest in the history of South London.
Author : DHK
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 103583670X
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book Grumpy and the Incurables written by DHK and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old, grumpy, and cynical, this man in his 70s complains about being riddled with incurable diseases which he describes using a lot of profanity, but in such a way that you can’t help yourself but laugh and feel sorry for him at the same time. He could be your Dad, your Grandad or perhaps you some day and this touches something in the reader. He claims he is trying to reach out to fellow sufferers of the many diseases but he openly admits that this is only because he wants them to buy his book. He promises that if you buy his book he won’t waste his profits on any good causes other than giving himself one final celebration or blow out as he says. He thinks he is a Senior Citizen Influencer and he shamelessly pokes fun at everyone on the planet whom he describes as little hamsters so busy running around in the wheel chasing a lost cause, until they can’t. He is also disparaging about ‘do gooders’ and those who would try to save the planet, but there is a hint of ‘tongue in cheek’ in all he says, or is there? Between the lines there is a serious side where he describes the suffering and indignities brought about by many of the conditions that he and millions of others endure. This book is not to everyone’s taste but everyone should read it.
Author : Barbara Donahue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974928111
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book They Called it "the Home for Incurables" written by Barbara Donahue and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agostino Falanga
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 0809145952
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Venerable Maria Lorenza Longo written by Agostino Falanga and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Maria Lorenza Longo was poisoned, she seemed doomed to a life of suffering until she was miraculously cured at the Holy House in Loreto. Maria became the mother of the poor, sick, and dying dedicating her life to serving the incurables and founding both a hospital and a religious order. From her contemporary St. Cajetan, founder of the Theatines, and from the Capuchin Friars, she drew her spiritual support and strength. She also played an important role in the early history of the Capuchin Order. This is authorized English translation of La Venerabile Maria Lorenza Longo by Agostino Falanga, OFM Cap., which was first published in Italy. Replete with new illustrations and a list of "rays of grace" (favors obtained through the intercession of the Venerable Maria), this book will further the cause for her canonization. While especially edifying for Franciscans and Theatines, this biography portrays a women who is an inspiration to all people. Book jacket.
Author : Lauren Kate
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735212589
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Orphan's Song written by Lauren Kate and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical adult debut novel by # 1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate, The Orphan's Song is a breathtaking story of passion, heartbreak, and betrayal, and a celebration of the enduring nature and transformative power of love. "A tangled knot of betrayal and love, lies and redemption. Marvelous." --Fiona Davis, author of The Address A song brought them together. A secret will tear them apart. When Violetta and Mino meet, one finds true love and the other denies it. Both orphans at the Hospital of the Incurables in Venice, an orphanage and music conservatory, they meet and make music together clandestinely until Violetta is selected for the Incurables' renowned chorus. In order to join she signs an oath never to sing beyond the church doors, effectively sequestering herself for life. Mino flees, heartbroken. Too late, Violetta realizes what she has lost. In rebellion she begins a dangerous and forbidden nightlife, unknowingly drawing closer to Mino as he searches Venice for his long-lost mother. Mino and Violetta must each journey through passion, heartache, and betrayal before a dangerous secret reunites them, leading to a shocking and final confrontation.
Author : Lorenza Gianfrancesco
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1800086733
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Science of Naples written by Lorenza Gianfrancesco and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long neglected in the history of Renaissance and early modern Europe, in recent years scholars have revised received understanding of the political and economic significance of the city of Naples and its rich artistic, musical and political culture. Its importance in the history of science, however, has remained relatively unknown. The Science of Naples provides the first dedicated study of Neapolitan scientific culture in the English language. Drawing on contributions from leading experts in the field, this volume presents a series of studies that demonstrate Neapolitans’ manifold contributions to European scientific culture in the early modern period and considers the importance of the city, its institutions and surrounding territories for the production of new knowledge. Individual chapters demonstrate the extent to which Neapolitan scholars and academies contributed to debates within the Republic of Letters that continued until deep into the nineteenth century. They also show how studies of Neapolitan natural disasters yielded unique insights that contributed to the development of fields such as medicine and earth sciences. Taken together, these studies resituate the city of Naples as an integral part of an increasingly globalised scientific culture, and present a rich and engaging portrait of the individuals who lived, worked and made scientific knowledge there.
Author : Ira Levin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605989363
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book This Perfect Day written by Ira Levin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Rosemary‘s Baby, a horrifying journey into a future only Ira Levin could imagine. Considered one of the great dystopian novels—alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World—Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers even forty years after publication. The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called “The Family.“ The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they can never realize their potential as human beings, but will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. even the basic facts of nature are subject to the UniComp's will—men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night. With a vision as frightening as any in the history of the science fiction genre, This Perfect Day is one of Ira Levin's most haunting novels.
