- Literature, Fiction, Immortalism, Psychotherapist and patient
On April 15, 1912--ironically the very date on which more than a thousand people lost their lives as the Titanic sank--a figure known only as Pilgrim tries to commit suicide by hanging himself from a tree.
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Grave, prestige, contemplative and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Timothy Findley
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 526
- Publisher
- Ullstein TB-Vlg, Faber and Faber, HarperFlamingo Canada
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- English, Dutch, French, German
- ISBN
- 9780060929374
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“Inside the front doors of the Burgholzli Psychiatric Clinic in Zurich, a nursed named Dora Henkel and an orderly whose name was Kessler were waiting to greet a new patient and his companion.”
Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC OOnt, was a Canadian novelist and playwright. *--Wikipedia*
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