The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer
Winner of the 1988 Whitbread Award, "The Comforts of Madness" is narrated by a catatonic who never speaks. To the rest of the world he is an inert body and is subjected to a variety of experiments, but his own consciousness is vital and reflective.
Paul Sayer was born and brought up in South Milford, near Leeds. He was a staff nurse in a large psychiatric hospital, before becoming a full-time writer. THE COMFORTS OF MADNESS, his first novel, won the Constable Trophy for fiction, the Whitbread first novel prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1988. His work has been translated into seven languages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340508046 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340508043 |
| Title | The Comforts of Madness |
| Author | Paul Sayer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 1989-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Prizes | Winner of Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 1988, Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 1988, Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 1988 |
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