Dreaming Sally by James Fitzgerald

Author:James Fitzgerald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2018-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

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In the North York General psychiatric ward, confined to a white room with black curtains, George Orr sat slumped in a circle of human forms he could only perceive as lost in space. The impersonal rotations of white-coated psychiatrists seemed to make no distinction between schizophrenia and a unique case of personal loss and attacked his natural grief with anti-psychotic drugs. Nothing worked.

To the huddle of inert bodies, the twenty-two-year-old patient told his near-supernatural story of a dead lover, but he knew no one was sharing the same reality. The day he heard the word “electro-shock” was the day his experience of the inside of a locked mental ward unwittingly conferred a blessing: after two weeks, he realized he was not a terminal head case, merely a smouldering blanket amid three-alarm fires, and he found the door. Where else might a Nowhere Man go but a fifth year of university?

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