Bedlam Burning - Couverture souple

Nicholson, Geoff

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0753812916 ISBN 13 : 9780753812914

Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2001

Synopsis

It all starts at Cambridge, in the rooms of Dr John Bentley, an eccentric don famous for his book-burning parties. Mike Smith is handsome, clever but untalented; Gregory Collins is unprepossessing of face and form, but, it will transpire, a novelist of enormous promise. When Gregory's first novel is published, he persuades Smith to take his place on the book jacket, on the grounds that nobody would buy a novel by an ugly novelist, however talented. Thus is set in train a chain of events which leads to Mike Smith becoming writer-in-residence in a mental hospital. The therapy of the charismatic but possibly fraudulent Dr Kincaid is based on the theory that people are driven mad by an overload of images; all such are banned in the hospital, but words are encouraged, hence Smith's job. It is only when a book of the patients' writings, teased out of them by Mike, is published and becomes a literary succes d'estime that this comedy of errors of judgement threatens to become a tragedy ...

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Educated at Cambridge. Was a bookseller before becoming a full-time writer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0753812916
• ISBN 13: 9780753812914
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible