A Cruel Madness

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A Cruel Madness

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…setting of his third novel, A Cruel Madness (1984), is an insane asylum, where the narrator, a patient, searches for a woman with whom he once had an affair. Falling (1989) involves a paralyzed trapeze artist who begs her lover to kill her. The allegorical 1991 novel Turning Back the…
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…setting of his third novel, A Cruel Madness (1984), is an insane asylum, where the narrator, a patient, searches for a woman with whom he once had an affair. Falling (1989) involves a paralyzed trapeze artist who begs her lover to kill her. The allegorical 1991 novel Turning Back the…
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