- Psychiatrists, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, historical
It is 1971, and Zachary Busner is a maverick psychiatrist who has just begun working at a mental hospital in suburban north London. As he tours the hospital's wards, Busner notes that some of the patients are exhibiting a very peculiar type of physical tic: rapid, precise movements that they repeat over and over.
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Grave, prestige, contemplative and bleak.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Will Self
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 423
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Distributed by Publishers Group West
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781408820148
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