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Wish Her Safe At Home (2010)

by Stephen Benatar(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

159017335X (ISBN13: 9781590173350)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

NYRB Classics

review 1: The author skillfully walks us down a road we all hope we'll never experience. From the life of a garden variety eccentric to something a little further down the line. The transition is gradual but inexorable. The author patiently lays the groundwork as subtle changes work their way into the fabric of Rachel's life. Many of her thoughts are unfamilar to me as a North American male but, somehow, I'm passionately on her side all the way. Very nice work.
review 2: A NYRB re-released classic. Throughout the whole thing, I felt a sick dread of self-recognition. But apparently not just me. From the foreword: " . . . one of the most disturbing books I have ever read. It shows us ourselves in a mad mirror. It reminds us how thin the boundaries are between the mad ... moreand the imaginative, the mad and the sensitive, the mad and the acute." Loved it. Can't wait to read it again. less

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