Wreaking
Three solitary characters remember their shared past in a sprawling, derelict psychiatric hospital on the English coast; a turbulent summer in the aftermath of the hospital’s closure that culminated in a shocking, life-altering accident. But the more each tries to comprehend the past, the more elusive it becomes. Wreaking is an intricate, labyrinthine novel about the opiate power of place, the fragility of sanity and the fickle nature of memory
By the author of The Man Booker-Longlisted Heliopolis
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Three solitary characters remember their shared past in a sprawling, derelict psychiatric hospital on the English coast; a turbulent summer in the aftermath of the hospital’s closure that culminated in a shocking, life-altering accident. But the more each tries to comprehend the past, the more elusive it becomes. Wreaking is an intricate, labyrinthine novel about the opiate power of place, the fragility of sanity and the fickle nature of memory
By the author of The Man Booker-Longlisted Heliopolis
Publisher: Vintage
Paperback
2014
ISBN: 9780099523857
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