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Bedlam burningBedlam burning

Bedlam burning

Geoff Nicholson

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When the debut novel of Gregory Collins is accepted by a publisher he seems set on a course for literary stardom. There's just one problem: he doesn't quite have the looks to match his talent, and his publisher wants a photo to put on the book jacket. He asks his handsome (but dim) college classmate, Mike Smith, to take his place. Consequently it is Smith rather than Collins who receives the offer to be writer-in-residence at an asylum where therapy is centered on the soothing powers of literature. It's not long before the boundaries between inmate and observer are blurred in this literary cuckoo's nest and this comedy of errors verges on tragedy.

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OL Work ID
OL444075W

Subjects

Book burningFictionImpostors and impostureNovelistsPsychiatric hospitalsPublishingWritings of the Mentally illNew York Times reviewedFiction, humorousAuthors, fictionEngland, fictionLitterateursFiction, humorous, general

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