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Umbrella
- Title
- Umbrella / Will Self.
- Author
- Self, Will.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 13-667 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 397 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Recently having abandoned his R.D. Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community -- the so-called Concept House in Willesden -- maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner arrives at Friern Hospital, a vast Victorian mental asylum in North London, under a professional and marital cloud. He has every intention of avoiding controversy, but then he encounters Audrey Dearth, a working-class girl from Fulham born in 1890 who has been immured in Friern for decades. A socialist, a feminist and a munitions worker at the Woolwich Arsenal, Audrey fell victim to the encephalitis lethargica sleeping sickness epidemic at the end of the First World War and has been in a coma ever since. Realising that Audrey is just one of a number of post-encephalitics scattered throughout the asylum, Busner becomes involved in an attempt to bring them back to life -- with wholly unforeseen consequences.
- Subject
- Additional Formats (note)
- Available also as an electronic book.
- Call Number
- JFD 13-667
- ISBN
- 1408820145 (hbk.)
- 9781408820148 (hbk.)
- 1408832097 (pbk.)
- 9781408832097 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2012515705
- OCLC
- 801388518
- Author
- Self, Will.
- Title
- Umbrella / Will Self.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.
- Additional Formats
- Available also as an electronic book.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 13-667