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Island of the mad : a novel

Sheck, Laurie, author

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\"Following on the heels of her exciting and widely acclaimed A Monster's Notes, and with Sheck's characteristic brilliance of language, Island of the Mad follows the solitary, hunchbacked Ambrose A., as he sets out on a mysterious journey to Venice in search of a lost notebook he knows almost nothing about. Eventually he arrives in San Servolo, the Island of the Mad, in the Venetian Lagoon, only a few minutes' boat-ride from Venice. At the island's old, abandoned hospital which has been turned into a conference center, he discovers a mess of papers in a drawer, and among them the correspondence and notes of two of the island's former inhabitants-a woman with a rare genetic illness which causes the afflicted to gradually become unable to sleep until, increasingly hallucinatory and feverish, they essentially die of sleeplessness; and her friend, a man who experiences epileptic seizures. As the sleepless woman's eyesight fails, she wants only one thing-that her friend read to her from Dostoevsky's great novel, The Idiot, a book she loves but can no longer read herself. As Ambrose follows their strange tale, everything he has ever known or thought is called into question\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Counterpoint Press
• Subject: Quests (Expeditions) Fiction. / Hospital patients Fiction. / Sanatoriums Fiction. / FICTION / Literary. / San Servolo Island (Italy) Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781619028357

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3569.H3917 I77 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE