num_pages: 254
description: Written with unsparing precision and astounding immediacy, Faces in the Water takes the reader behind the walls of two hospitals--Cliffhaven and Treecroft--and into the hearts and minds of its confused and tormented patients. The experience of insanity and "the utter, the naked precariousness of existence" is conveyed with extraordinary insight and poetic brilliance.
language: English
title: Faces in the Water
titlecomplete: Faces in the Water
genres: Fiction, Mental Health, Psychology, Womens, Literature, Classics, Contemporary, Mental Illness, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 2166
places: New Zealand
publisher: George Braziller Inc.