Books by Stefan Merrill Block
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review 1: Stefan Merrill Block has found inspiration in his own family � he writes of his maternal grandfather, Frederick, who was committed to a mental institution for several months in 1962, and his grandmother Katharine, struggling to maintain ordinary family life for the sake of their ...
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review 1: Jeg har skiftevis læst den på engelsk og på dansk. Synes, at den er meget poetisk på engelsk, men også meget svær at læse. Og selvom jeg læser den på min Kindle og kan slå ord op hurtigt, så bliver det alligevel for enerverede at skulle slå op hele tiden og vurdere, hvordan orden...
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review 1: Once upon a time I lived in a house at the edge of McLean's, the mental hospital fictionalized by Block as Mayflower. It was always there, out of sight, private. Block imagines the inside, of the hospital, of some of its patients and staff, drawing on his grandparent's story. I l...