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Sto caricando le informazioni... Call it a difficult night (2015)di Mishka Hoosen
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Using anecdotes, poems, dialogue, and fragments of historical research, Call it a Difficult Night follows a nonlinear path in tracing the life of its young narrator/protagonist. Institutionalised after a 'final break', a young woman remembers in sharp detail her disturbing childhood visions, which have become overwhelming by the time she is at a boarding school in the US and later at university in South Africa. When she finally gets a diagnosis - temporal lobe epilepsy - a doctor explains that she is likely to be either demented or brain dead by the time she's 30. Set mainly during the short spell in the mental hospital, the story proceeds through encounters with nurses, doctors, other patients, and also the friends who visit, many of them frightened by her state of mind. These encounters, painful but quite often funny, takes us deeper into the feelings of the young woman and further into the workings of the mental health system which generates the definitions of madness. She is defiant in her noncompliance and deeply suspicious of her treatment. She is sure that her hallucinations, dangerous and terrifying as they are, are preferable to the dulling effects of her medication and its theft of her creativity. Call it a Difficult Night is a novel brimming with empathy, observation and lyricism, by an author who has the capacity to describe great joy and great suffering. *** "Very highly recommended for personal reading lists, as well as community and academic library Literary Fiction collections, 'Call it a Difficult Night' is an exceptionally lyrical, original, and deftly empathetic novel that is a consistently compelling read from beginning to end." --Midwest Book Review, Reviewer's Bookwatch: November 2016, Julie's Bookshelf [Subject: Poetry, Fiction] Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia: Nessun voto.Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |