Gravity of Love
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Publication
2016-09-23 - MacLehose Press
Language
English
Word Count
71,500 words, Guess
Page Count
286 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL30451727M
- ISBN-139780857054760
- ISBN-100857054767
- OCLC Control Number962007979
- OCLC Control Number939995496
and 1 more
- Internet Archivegravityofloveode0000stri
Classifications
- LCCPT9877.29.T75
Description
1 volume ; 20 cm
Description
Jim - charming, captivating, much loved by his women friends - has attempted suicide several times. Over his period of incarceration at the Beckomberga hospital for the mentally unstable, he voices his determination to succeed. Someday soon, he tells his daughter - as he has earlier told his mother and his wife - he will swallow 60 tablets, help them down with a bottle of whisky, and swim impossibly far out into the Atlantic. Will he, really? This question plagues Jim's daughter, the narrator of this powerful novel, who is as addicted to the hospital as her father is to alcohol. Through her subtle observations, we understand the emotional needs of diehard alcoholics, the rational uxoricide and other seemingly normal inhabitants of a psychiatric unit in the process of shutting down, depriving them of the only place they have known as home.
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