Paul Cody
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
"Earl Madden, a former teacher of English and American studies at a private high school for boys in Boston, is on the locked ward of a state mental hospital. Manic-depressive and heavily sedated, he thinks he may have killed his wife. Moving back and forth in time in his mind, through periods of relative clarity and severe psychic fracture, he recalls his unstable childhood, his brief courtship and marriage with its moments of normalcy and happiness,...