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The comforts of madness Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. The comforts of madness by Sayer, Paul. Publication date Topics Fiction in English, - Texts Publisher [London]: Sceptre Collection. By contrast, in the ten years following Comforts of Madness although Paul Sayer published several novels, falling sales forced him to give up writing professionally and he took a job as a school cleaner. In , twenty-two years after he beat Rushdie to the top Whitbread award - three years after Rushdie's knighthood - he eventually. The comforts of madness by Sayer, Paul. Publication date Publisher New York: Doubleday Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; americana Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate Bookplateleaf Boxid IA Boxid_2.
Paul Sayer (Author) Format: Kindle Edition out of 5 stars 15 ratings THE COMFORTS OF MADNESS is the unspoken monologue of Peter, a year-old catatonic psychiatric patient, who is selected for an intense and controversial process of rehabilitation. THE COMFORTS OF MADNESS. by Paul Sayer‧RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, A catatonic patient in a mental hospital reflects on his condition in this short, bleak first novel from England. Peter has lost track of time and does not know how long he has been in the hospital, or even his age; when somebody tells him it's his 33rd birthday, he is skeptical. A flashback sketches a grim childhood: feckless, alcoholic father; anxious, withdrawn mother; and disturbed, self-dramatizing sister. The Comforts of Madness is the debut novel of English author Paul Sayer. It won the Whitbread Award for both Best First Novel, and Book of the Year. Written while the author was working as a psychiatric nurse in Clifton Hospital in York, and drawing on his own experiences it is a first-person account of a speechless, catatonic patient in a hospital therapy unit.
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