Faces in the Water

by janet frame | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0704338610 Global Overview for this book
Registered by newcastlemarga of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on 5/22/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by newcastlemarga from Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Monday, May 22, 2006
"Faces in the Water is a novel as wide and deep and unexpected as madness itself. It is about confinement in mental institutions, about the fear the "sane" have of the "mad" and the ways in which that fear banishes and punishes those whose reaction to a truly cruel and insane world is to move into a world which is self-created." - from back cover

To be read, and then either kept in my permanent collection or passed onto Hecateh.

Journal Entry 2 by newcastlemarga from Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Sunday, June 25, 2006
A fascinating - but terrifying! - portrait of life in a mental hospital in the 1940s. I found it a refreshing change from many books on the subject which seem to glamorise mental illness and hospitalisation. Definitely a keeper.

Journal Entry 3 by newcastlemarga from Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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