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Author Bartók, Mira

Title The memory palace / by Mira Bartok

Publisher New York : Free Press, c2011
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Description 305 p. 23 cm
Format Book
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
Subject Herr, Norma Kurap, 1926-2007
Bartók, Mira
Children of the mentally ill -- United States -- Biography
Mentally ill parents -- United States -- Biography
Alt Author Herr, Norma Kurap, 1926-2007
ISBN 9781439183311
1439183317