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005    20170110031107.0 
008    160617s2017    cau      b    000 f eng   
010      2016020231 
020    9781619028357|qhardcover 
020    1619028352|qhardcover 
035    (OCoLC)951915887 
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100 1  Sheck, Laurie,|eauthor. 
245 10 Island of the mad :|ba novel /|cLaurie Sheck. 
264  1 Berkeley :|bCounterpoint,|c[2017] 
300    437 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-437). 
520    "Island of the Mad follows the solitary, hunchbacked 
       Ambrose A., as he sets out on a mysterious journey to 
       Venice in search of a lost notebook he knows almost 
       nothing about. Eventually he arrives in San Servolo, the 
       Island of the Mad, in the Venetian Lagoon, only a few 
       minutes' boat-ride from Venice. At the island's old, 
       abandoned hospital which has been turned into a conference
       center, he discovers a mess of papers in a drawer, and 
       among them the correspondence and notes of two of the 
       island's former inhabitants-a woman with a rare genetic 
       illness which causes the afflicted to gradually become 
       unable to sleep until, increasingly hallucinatory and 
       feverish, they essentially die of sleeplessness; and her 
       friend, a man who experiences epileptic seizures. As the 
       sleepless woman's eyesight fails, she wants only one thing
       -that her friend read to her from Dostoevsky's great novel,
       The Idiot, a book she loves but can no longer read 
       herself. As Ambrose follows their strange tale, everything
       he has ever known or thought is called into question."--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Quests (Expeditions)|vFiction. 
650  0 Hospital patients|vFiction. 
650  0 Sanatoriums|vFiction. 
650  7 FICTION|xLiterary.|2bisacsh 
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650  7 Quests (Expeditions)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01085708 
650  7 Sanatoriums.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01104775 
651  0 San Servolo Island (Italy)|vFiction. 
651  7 Italy|zSan Servolo Island.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01306561 
655  7 Fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423787 
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