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050 00 $aPS3553.A66876$bL68 2004
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100 1 $aCarey, Lisa.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97103480
245 10 $aLove in the asylum :$ba novel /$cLisa Carey.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bWilliam Morrow,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $a294 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Alba Elliot is tired of being crazy. In and out of Abenaki Mental Hospital more than a dozen times in ten years, fed up with diagnoses that come without cures and a life organized by a days-of-the-week pill case, the twenty-five-year-old children's book writer is waiting for a miracle." "Oscar Jameson, a thirty-year-old drug addict enrolled in the rehab program by his frustrated brother, is not looking for anything so profound. Oscar doesn't believe he has a problem, despite the fact that his "recreation" has cost him everything. He resents the counselors, the other addicts, and his brother, all of whom insist he belongs there. The only activity Oscar looks forward to is the spirited, sarcastic conversations that have begun with Alba on the hospital lawn. And so two damaged souls forge a connection. To call it love would be courting disaster since now bright future could possibly exist between a suicidal manic-depressive and a self-deluding junkie." "Then one day, in the back pages of a hospital library book, Alba finds a letter written seventy years earlier but never sent. Mary Doherty, who was committed by her husband and taken from her children, left behind secret missives about the atrocities done to her and her belief in an ancient healing power. As Alba pieces together Mary's heartbreaking chronicle, she begins to set her hopes in a different kind of medicine." "Brought together by chance, influenced by forces as beautiful and powerful as they are unforeseen, Alba and Oscar will slowly rise from the ashes of despair and self-destruction and, in the midst of righting an old wrong, begin to heal their battered spirits."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPsychiatric hospital patients$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110132
650 0 $aSubstance abuse$xTreatment$vFiction.
650 0 $aDrug addicts$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102436
650 0 $aLetter writing$vFiction.
650 0 $aWomen$zMaine$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113620
650 0 $aWomen authors$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113438
650 0 $aAlcoholics$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100944
651 0 $aMaine$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107224
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3553.A66876$iL68 2004