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ESSONDALE A NOVEL BY DAVID LAING DAWSON
Is
this hell, or just a psychiatric hospital? Dr. Robert Snow isn't
sure. Waking from a drunken stupor in a small green room, the doctor
finds he's on the other side of the diagnosis - in a place where life
and mental health seem to be going pretty cheap these days. Murder
and sexual abuse haunt the hospital, but Snow doesn't really care.
He'd rather be dead anyway. When a charming, manic cowboy and a
world-weary intellectual invade Snow's self-imposed isolation, they
drag him out of his depression - and into the heart of Essondale's
black mysteries...
His earlier
works have been translated into 7 languages.
Publishers Weekly called Dawson "a surehanded competitor of Robin Cook"
"Dawson's greatest strength is that he makes no judgments - not of the patients, not of the doctors, not of Essondale itself" Quill and Quire
Distributed
by the Ingram Book Company, trade paper, 236 pages, $19.95 US retail
(ISBN 978-0-9810037-4-0)
   
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