- Mentally ill, Psychiatric hospital patients, Psychiatric hospitals, Fiction
Pepper is a rambunctious big man, and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He's not mentally ill, but that doesn't seem to matter.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Victor D. LaValle
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Spiegel & Grau, Dreamscape Media
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781400069866
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