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Notes From The Sick Room - Steve Finbow
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Notes From The Sick Room

By: Steve Finbow

Paperback | 1 March 2017

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Notes from the Sick Room takes place in an imaginary hospital that bends the rules of time and space. Within its wards and departments we meet artists, musicians and writers who have suffered from various physical illnesses - cancer, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and physical trauma. Their lives and works are discussed in an attempt to diagnose how their complaints influenced their work or how their creativity affected their symptoms.

We meet Virginia Woolf, Kathy Acker, Frida Kahlo, Katherine Mansfield, Bob Dylan Bruce Chatwin and many others as they struggle to produce works of art, literature and music while in denial, acceptance or flight and through periods of serious illness and convalescence. As we move through the hospital, specialists keep us informed of the history of creativity and illness and the author divulges his own medical history.

About the Author

Steve Finbow's fiction includes Down Among the Dead, Balzac of the Badlands (Future Fiction London, 2009), Tougher Than Anything in the Animal Kingdom (Grievous Jones Press, 2011) and Nothing Matters (Snubnose Press, 2012). His biography of Allen Ginsberg in Reaktion's Critical Lives series was published in 2011. He has been a writer for Quarantine theatre company and his work appears in many international anthologies and journals. His most recent non-fiction work is Grave Desire: A Cultural History of Necrophilia (Zero Books, 2014). He is currently working on a long novel.

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Literature, Poetry & PlaysHistory & Criticism of LiteratureGeneral Literary Studies

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