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| Language | English |
| Format |
Island of the Mad by Laurie R King
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.| Author | Laurie R King |
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| Condition | Very Good |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Allison & Busby |
| Year published | 2019-01-24 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| ISBN 13 | 9780749022648 |
| ISBN 10 | 0749022647 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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