Island of the Mad: A Novel
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- Synopsis
- Following on the heels of her exciting and widely acclaimed A Monsters Notes, and with Shecks 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 islands 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 islands 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 womans eyesight fails, she wants only one thing—that her friend read to her from Dostoevskys 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.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 396 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781619028654
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781619028357
- Publisher:
- Counterpoint Press
- Date of Addition:
- 01/13/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Laurie Sheck
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Horror, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.