Format:
Book
Title:
Umbrella / Will Self.
Author:
Self, Will.
Call Number:
FIC SELF W
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : Grove Press, c2012.
Description:
397 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
Maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner arrives at Friern Hospital, a vast Victorian mental asylum in North London, under a professional and a marital cloud. He has every intention of avoiding controversy, but then he encounters Audrey Dearth, a working-class girl from Fulham born in 1890 who has been immured in Friern for decades. A socialist, a feminist and a munitions worker at the Woolwich Arsenal, Audrey fell victim to the encephalitis lethargica sleeping sickness epidemic at the end of the First World War and has been in a coma ever since. Realising that Audrey is just one of a number of post-encephalitics scattered throughout the asylum, Busner becomes involved in an attempt to bring them back to life - with wholly unforeseen consequences.
Subjects:
Epidemic encephalitis -- Complications -- Fiction.
Coma -- Patients -- Treatment -- Fiction.
Psychiatrists -- England -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780802120724
0802120725