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Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors (American Lives)

Brand: Bison Books

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UPC:
9780803259751
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2007-03-01
Author:
Charles Barber
Language:
english
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Day after day, night after night, desperate men come to sit in the black chair next to Charles Barbers desk in a basement office at Bellevue and tell of their travails, of prison and disease, of violence and the voices that plague them. Between the stories, amid the peeling paint, musty odor, and flickering fluorescent light of his office, Barber observes that this isnt really where he is supposed to be and reveals his privileged youth in contrast to his own nightmare of mental illness. By relating these troubled lives to his own, Barber illuminates some of the most disturbing and enduring truths of human nature.