Brain work
Subtitle: stories
By: Michael Guista.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780618546725
Subjects: Psychological fiction, American.
Description: Guista's characters are on the frontlines of mind-body problems: psychiatrists, professors, and people functioning with brain disorders of varying degrees of seriousness. In 'Filling the Spaces Between Us, ' a disillusioned psychiatrist discovers too late the folly of his lifelong professional obsession. 'A Walk Outside' visits a nursing facility where a respite from the aftereffects of sleeping sickness gives an elderly man an opportunity to romance a neighbor afflicted with Alzheimer's. In 'California, ' a man develops a searing migraine as his wife sells all the keepsakes of their marriage at one final yard sale. Throughout the collection, Guista maintains an extraordinary mix of compassion for his characters and awe at their situations.
Notes: "A Mariner original."
Table of contents: title: Filling the spaces between us; title: The whole world's guilt; title: The front yard; title: Down to the roots; title: A walk outside; title: Secrets; title: The interviewer; title: Step four; title: Kiltee; title: The old country; title: California; title: Godcrazy; title: Let me introduce to you; title: The year of release.