The Resource The gravity of love : ode to my family, Sara Stridsberg ; translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner
The gravity of love : ode to my family, Sara Stridsberg ; translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner
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- Summary
- A dazzlingly inventive and acclaimed novel set in a Stockholm psychiatric hospital - by one of Sweden's most exciting literary talents. "I'll put my head in the oven so you know where I am," he whispers, kissing her neck. Jim - charming, captivating, much loved by his women friends - has attempted suicide several times. Over his period of incarceration at the Beckomberga hospital for the mentally unstable, he voices his determination to succeed. Some day soon, he tells his daughter - as he has earlier told his mother and his wife - he will swallow sixty tablets, help them down with a bottle of whisky, and swim impossibly far out into the Atlantic. Will he, really? This question plagues Jim's daughter, the narrator of this powerful novel, who is as addicted to the hospital as her father is to alcohol. Through her subtle observations we understand the emotional needs of diehard alcoholics, the rationally uxoricidal, and other seemingly normal inhabitants of a psychiatric unit in the process of shutting down, depriving them of the only place they have known as home
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 286 pages
- Note
- First published in the Swedish language as Beckomberga: ode till min familj by Albert Bonniers, Stockholm, in 2014
- Isbn
- 9780857054760
- Label
- The gravity of love : ode to my family
- Title
- The gravity of love
- Title remainder
- ode to my family
- Statement of responsibility
- Sara Stridsberg ; translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A dazzlingly inventive and acclaimed novel set in a Stockholm psychiatric hospital - by one of Sweden's most exciting literary talents. "I'll put my head in the oven so you know where I am," he whispers, kissing her neck. Jim - charming, captivating, much loved by his women friends - has attempted suicide several times. Over his period of incarceration at the Beckomberga hospital for the mentally unstable, he voices his determination to succeed. Some day soon, he tells his daughter - as he has earlier told his mother and his wife - he will swallow sixty tablets, help them down with a bottle of whisky, and swim impossibly far out into the Atlantic. Will he, really? This question plagues Jim's daughter, the narrator of this powerful novel, who is as addicted to the hospital as her father is to alcohol. Through her subtle observations we understand the emotional needs of diehard alcoholics, the rationally uxoricidal, and other seemingly normal inhabitants of a psychiatric unit in the process of shutting down, depriving them of the only place they have known as home
- Awards note
- European literature prize Sweden. Winner 2015.
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1972-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Stridsberg, Sara
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- Translated from the Swedish
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Bragan-Turner, Deborah
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mentally ill
- Suicidal behaviour
- Psychiatric hospitals
- Alcoholics
- Swedish fiction
- Stockholm (Sweden)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The gravity of love : ode to my family, Sara Stridsberg ; translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner
- Note
- First published in the Swedish language as Beckomberga: ode till min familj by Albert Bonniers, Stockholm, in 2014
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000058900102
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 286 pages
- Isbn
- 9780857054760
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)962007979
- Label
- The gravity of love : ode to my family, Sara Stridsberg ; translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner
- Note
- First published in the Swedish language as Beckomberga: ode till min familj by Albert Bonniers, Stockholm, in 2014
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000058900102
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 286 pages
- Isbn
- 9780857054760
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)962007979
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