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"Garay receives a computer disk containing a manuscript--which might be fictional, or could be a memoir--by Doctor Real, a nineteenth-century physician tasked with leading a group of five mental patients on a trip to a recently constructed asylum. Their trip, which ends in disaster and fire, is...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, NY :
Open Letter,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Garay receives a computer disk containing a manuscript--which might be fictional, or could be a memoir--by Doctor Real, a nineteenth-century physician tasked with leading a group of five mental patients on a trip to a recently constructed asylum. Their trip, which ends in disaster and fire, is a brilliant tragicomedy thanks to the various insanities of the patients, among whom is a delusional man who greatly over-estimates his own importance and a nymphomaniac nun who tricks everyone--even the other patients--into sleeping with her"-- |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Spanish as Las nubes, 1997" --Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 160 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781940953342 1940953340 |