| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
The author's first book, a fictionalized account of a friend's descent into mental illness, described in the jacket copy as a blend of novel, case-history, and biography. Includes rather brutal, realistic descriptions of incarceration in a New York mental hospital, location unspecified but clearly modeled on Bellevue; and of the 1939 New York World's Fair, where the book's main character experiences his first psychotic episode. |
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