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Author Boyle, T. Coraghessan.

Title Riven rock / T. Coraghessan Boyle.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 1998.

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 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION BOYLE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION BOYLE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  BOYLE, T. CORAGHESSA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC BOYLE    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  BOYLE    Check Shelf
Description xii, 466 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Prologue: 1927, World Without Women -- Dr. Hamilton's Time -- How His Hand -- Eve -- Psychopathia Sexualis -- False, Petty, Childish and Smug -- Giovannella Dimucci -- The Harness -- Stanley of the Apes -- Dr. Brush's Time -- Love is Loyal, Hope is Gone -- For the Main and Simple Reason -- The art of Wooing -- One Slit's Enough -- The Match of the Year -- Of Death and Begonias -- Prangins -- Dr. Kempf's Time -- Benign Stupors -- La Lune de Miel -- On Shaky Ground -- I've Seen Your Face -- In the Presence of Ladies -- Sick, Very Sick -- Three O'clock -- Come on in, Jack -- Epilogue: 1947, World Without Walls.
Summary A love story early this century on a young millionaire who has gone mad and his loyal wife. For twenty years, suffragette Katherine McCormick awaits a cure while doctors treat Stanley in his palatial mansion in California. They won't allow her visits because he cannot look at a woman without attacking her, so the couple's only contact is by telephone.
Subject Schizophrenics -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01081344
Schizophrenics. (OCoLC)fst01106789
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Love stories.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
Psychological fiction.
Other Form: Online version: Boyle, T. Coraghessan. Riven rock. New York : Viking, 1998 (OCoLC)605439616
ISBN 0670878812 (alk. paper)
9780670878819 (alk. paper)
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