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The lives they left behind : suitcases from a state hospital attic  Cover Image Book Book

The lives they left behind : suitcases from a state hospital attic / Darby Penney and Peter Stastny ; with photographs by Lisa Rinzler.

Penney, Darby. (Author). Stastny, Peter. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781934137079 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1934137073 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 205 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-196) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
He took them on their last walk -- Who went to Willard and why did they go there? -- How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor turned into the devil incarnate) -- Children died and she knit her life away -- Like a fly in a spider web -- How people were treated at Willard -- A photographic talent: rising above the fray -- A frequent visitor to the White House -- My blood temper...resigned -- An Italian princess and a French intellectual: two ways of fighting for freedom.
Subject: Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.) > History.
Psychiatric hospitals > History.
Psychiatric hospital patients > Biography.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Erlanger Branch 362.21 P413L 2008 (Text) 33126014990000 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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