The Centre Cannot Hold (My Journey Through Madness)
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چکیده
If you walk into any branch of Waterstones, near the biography section there is a section called “Lost Lives”. This is the result of the increasing numbers of memoirs dealing with various types of abuse in childhood and various degrees of subsequent transcendence. The genre has also less charitably been dubbed “Misery Lit”, and described as “the book world’s biggest boom sector.” I am happy to report however that this book doesn’t belong in that section.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Ulster Medical Journal
دوره 77 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008