The lives they left behind : suitcases from a state hospital attic
(2008)
By:
Penney, Darby
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
362.21/PENNEY,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2008
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
205 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781934137079 (hardcover), 1934137073 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
He took them on their last walk -- Who went to Willard and why did they go there? -- How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor turned into the devil incarnate) -- Children died and she knit her life away -- Like a fly in a spider web -- How people were treated at Willard -- A photographic talent: rising above the fray -- A frequent visitor to the White House -- My blood temper...resigned -- An Italian princess and a French intellectual: two ways of fighting for freedom