Research Catalog
Accident
- Title
- Accident / Dawn Garisch.
- Author
- Garisch, Dawn
- Publication
- [Cape Town] : Modjaji Books, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR9369.3.G35 D39 2017 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 275 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "Carol Trehorne's only child Max, is in ICU with severe burns. Max, a performance artist, has set himself alight. ... Carol, a single parent and a GP ... is worried that her son ... might be on drugs or going psychotic. As she discusses her concerns with her son's psychiatrist, she wonders if her past behaviour ... has influenced Max's determination to use his body as a site of violent art in the pursuit of revelation. ... Accident raises questions about what kind of life is worth living and what death is worth dying. It explores the different responses artists and scientists can have to violence and self-destructive behaviour, and throws into sharp relief the difficulties parents face when their children make decisions that appear incomprehensible."--
- Subject
- Performance artists > Fiction
- Self-destructive behavior > Fiction
- Mothers and sons > Fiction
- Performers > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Comportement autodestructeur > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Mères et fils > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- South Africa
- novels (form)
- Mothers and sons
- Performance artists
- Self-destructive behavior
- Genre/Form
- Novels
- Fiction
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Romans.
- ISBN
- 9781928215332
- 1928215335
- 9781928215349 (canceled/invalid)
- 1928215343 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- ocn999203639
- 999203639
- SCSB-8881146
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library