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Author:

Bartók, Mira.

Title:

The memory palace / by Mira Bartok.

Publisher:

Free Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

305 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Herr, Norma Kurap,--1926-2007.
Bartók, Mira.
Children of the mentally ill--United States--Biography.
Mentally ill parents--United States--Biography.

Other Authors:

Herr, Norma Kurap, 1926-2007.

Contents:

The order of things -- The subterranean world -- Medusa -- Passion flower -- The eye of Goya -- Cave girl -- My year with Audubon -- The vigilance of Dolphins -- Changelings -- The museum of indelible things -- Death, the rider -- The new world -- Forgeries and illuminations -- Galilee -- Rabbits -- Oracle bone -- Palimpsest -- In the palace of Kalachakra -- Into the land of birds and fire -- A cabinet of wonders.

Summary:

A gorgeous memoir about the 17 year estrangement of the author and her homeless schizophrenic mother, and their reunion.

ISBN:

1439183317
9781439183311

OCLC:

(OCoLC)555641725

LCCN:

2010008399

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