Lunatic In My Head

Author : Anjum Hasan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789351187615

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Lunatic in My Head by Anjum Hasan Pdf

It’s raining in Shillong. Eight-year-old Sophie Das has just realised she is adopted, but there is also the baby kicking inside her mother’s stomach whom she’s dying to meet. IAS aspirant Aman Moondy is planning a fi rst-of-its-kind Happening and praying the lovely Concordella will come. College lecturer Firdaus Ansari is going to fi nish her thesis, have a hard talk with her boyfriend, and then get the hell out. Poetic, funny, tender, Lunatic in My Head is an unforgettable portrait of a small town and of three people joined to each other in an intricate web, determined to break out of their destinies.

Author : Anjum Hasan
Publisher : Brass Monkey Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0980740517

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Lunatic in My Head by Anjum Hasan Pdf

The early 1990s. It's raining in Shillong. Eight-year-old Sophie Das is convinced she is adopted. But she is looking forward to meeting the baby kicking in her mother's stomach and that will keep her from running off to her real parents. For now. Aman Moondy will attempt the Indian Administrative Service exam for the second time. Distracted by the lovely Concordella and plans for a first-of-its-kind Happening, his heart really lies with Pink Floyd and the messages they are sending him through their music. College lecturer Firdaus Ansari is struggling with her thesis on Jane Austen, staffroom politics and an unpredictable boyfriend. One of these days she will finish that thesis, have a no-nonsense talk with her boyfriend, and get out. Lunatic in my Head is a funny yet tender portrait of three people determined to break out of their small-town destinies. '. . . haunting, lyrical and daring, bringing fresh air into the stale confines of Indian writing . . . ' Siddhartha Deb, author of Surface and Point of Return

Author : Anjum Hasan
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788194566175

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Neti, Neti: Not This, Not This by Anjum Hasan Pdf

Anjum Hasan is the author of two novels, The Cosmopolitans and Lunatic in my Head (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award), a collection of short stories, Difficult Pleasures (shortlisted for the Hindu Literary Prize and the Crossword Book Award), and a book of poetry, Street on the Hill. She lives in Bangalore.

Author : Emma Forrest
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408822067

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Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest Pdf

A dazzling and devastating memoir exploring breakdown and obsessive love, in a voice unlike any other

Author : Herman Charles Merivale
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Law
ISBN : EAN:8596547315810

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My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum by Herman Charles Merivale Pdf

This is an enlightening memoir by Herman Merivale, where he narrated his time in one of England's countryside asylums in the 1860s. He was suffering from depression and was taken into care for treatment. Throughout the work, Merivale attacked over-treatment and suggested that being in the asylum during that period could drive someone into insanity even if they were completely normal.

Author : K. L. Savage
Publisher : RUTHLESS UNDERWORLD LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952500281

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Lunatic by K. L. Savage Pdf

Author : Mark Davis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445636429

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Asylum by Mark Davis Pdf

With the advent of care in the community for the mentally afflicted, the self-contained villages for the apparently insane have now been consigned to the history books. These once bustling Victorian institutions were commonly known in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the county asylum or the pauper lunatic asylum , and were an accepted and essential part of society for nearly two centuries. It is difficult to believe that, in 1914, there were 102 such asylums, accommodating over 100,000 patients, the majority of whom lived their entire lives under care and treatment. In 2014, with the exception of those that have already been demolished, these buildings now lie empty and derelict, or have been converted for contemporary living. Through this photographic book, we journey into the inner sanctum of a world of lost dreams, where hope was more often than not unwillingly traded for an uncomfortable acceptance.

Author : Anjum Hasan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788184756272

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Difficult Pleasures by Anjum Hasan Pdf

A solitary economist drives from France to Sweden to try and redeem a tragedy; a boy fervently hopes his father will not miss his appearance in a school play; a painter on the way to Europe is about to board the wrong flight; a village boy leaves school for the bright lights of Bangalore; a man tries to stop time. Wry, tender, borderline surreal, Difficult Pleasures is a collection of stories about the need to escape and the longing to belong. Accomplished, ambitious and full of surprises, this is a masterful collection - and it confirms Anjum Hasan’s reputation as one of India’s most gifted young writers.

Author : Dave Barry,Alan Zweibel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101565773

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Lunatics by Dave Barry,Alan Zweibel Pdf

Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for a local kids’ soccer league. Jeffrey Peckerman is the proud and loving father of a star athlete in the girls’ ten-and-under soccer league, and he’s not exactly happy with the ref. The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, subversives, bears, revolutionaries, pirates, and a black ops team that does not exist. Where all that takes them you can’t even begin to guess, but the literary journey there is a masterpiece of inspiration, chaos, and unadulterated, well, lunacy. And they might even learn a lesson or two along the way.

Author : Kathryn Burtinshaw,John Burt
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781473879058

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Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots by Kathryn Burtinshaw,John Burt Pdf

“Reveals the grisly conditions in which the mentally ill were kept . . . [and] harrowing details of the inhumane and gruesome treatment of these patients.”—Daily Mail In the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical understanding, and treatment of insanity developed. Focusing on selected cases, this new study enables the reader to understand how progressively advancing attitudes and expectations affected decisions, leading to better legislation and medical practice throughout the century. Specific mental health conditions are discussed in detail and the treatments patients received are analyzed in an expert way. A clear view of why institutional asylums were established, their ethos for the treatment of patients, and how they were run as palaces rather than prisons giving moral therapy to those affected becomes apparent. The changing ways in which patients were treated, and altered societal views to the incarceration of the mentally ill, are explored. The book is thoroughly illustrated and contains images of patients and asylum staff never previously published, as well as first-hand accounts of life in a nineteenth-century asylum from a patient’s perspective. Written for genealogists as well as historians, this book contains clear information concerning access to asylum records and other relevant primary sources and how to interpret their contents in a meaningful way. “Through the use of case studies, this book adds a personal note to the historiography in a way that is often missing from scholarly works.”—Federation of Family History Societies

Author : John Irving
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345418012

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The World According to Garp by John Irving Pdf

T.S. Garp, a man with high ambitions for an artistic career and with obsessive devotion to his wife and children, and Jenny Fields, his famous feminist mother, find their lives surrounded by an assortment of people including teachers, whores, and radicals

Author : Anthony C. Winkler
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617750540

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The Lunatic by Anthony C. Winkler Pdf

This novel reveals that lunacy is by no means restricted to the village madman. . . . “By far the funniest book I’ve read in a decade” (The Washington Post Book World). In Jamaica, Aloysius is tolerated by his neighbors, but forced to eke out a living by doing odd jobs and use the hospitable woodlands for shelter. Starved of human companionship, he has running conversations with trees and plants. Then love, or a peculiar version of it, comes to Aloysius in the form of a solidly built German lady, Inga Schmidt, who has come to the Caribbean to photograph the flora and fauna. They will embark on a romance and a series of misadventures that may turn the island, and their lives, upside down . . . “Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours, bristling with savage Jamaican wit.” —Marlon James

Author : Carl Hoffman
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780767929813

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The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman Pdf

Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from the idea of tourism, travel as the pursuit of pleasure, as it was possible to get. So off he went, spending six months circumnavigating the globe on the world's worst conveyances: the statistically most dangerous airlines, the most crowded and dangerous ferries, the slowest buses, and the most rickety trains. The Lunatic Express takes us into the heart of the world, to some its most teeming cities and remotest places: from Havana to Bogotá on the perilous Cuban Airways. Lima to the Amazon on crowded night buses where the road is a washed-out track. Across Indonesia and Bangladesh by overcrowded ferries that kill 1,000 passengers a year. On commuter trains in Mumbai so crowded that dozens perish daily, across Afghanistan as the Taliban closes in, and, scariest of all, Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., by Greyhound. The Lunatic Express is the story of traveling with seatmates and deckmates who have left home without American Express cards on conveyances that don't take Visa, and seldom take you anywhere you'd want to go. But it's also the story of traveling as it used to be—a sometimes harrowing trial, of finding adventure in a modern, rapidly urbanizing world and the generosity of poor strangers, from ear cleaners to urban bus drivers to itinerant roughnecks, who make up most of the world's population. More than just an adventure story, The Lunatic Express is a funny, harrowing and insightful look at the world as it is, a planet full of hundreds of millions of people, mostly poor, on the move and seeking their fortunes.

Author : F. E. Higgins
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780230752863

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The Lunatic's Curse by F. E. Higgins Pdf

Deep within the heart of the Moiraean Mountains lies the town of Opum Oppidulum - home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and it's rumoured monster. An inescapable asylum stands in the centre of the lake, enclosed by the sheer cliffs of Drop Rock island. When Ambrose Grammaticus, famous inventor and master engineer, viciously attacks his own son, Rex, he is hauled to the island and imprisoned. Rex knows his evil stepmother, Acantha, is behind his father's 'madness', but how can he prove it? Only the asylum holds the answers . . . A twisted tale of treachery, lunacy, greed, revenge and pure unadulterated wickedness.

Author : Patrick M. Carlisle
Publisher : Henry E Panky Enterprises
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Humor
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Unfair & Unbalanced by Patrick M. Carlisle Pdf

Called by readers "blazingly funny, divinely inspired, breathtaking, sophisticated, original, deranged, a brilliant intellect wasted, and a comedic genius," if one could stew Dave Barry, Hunter Thompson, Al Franken and David Sedaris down into a thick, tasty ragout which might then be served over noodles, that might begin to approximate the unexpectedly hilarious experience of reading Patrick Carlisle. In a thoroughly questionable and highly refutable manner, with wildly fluctuating amounts of insight and sensitivity, Mr. Carlisle examines such irrational topics of modern identity as internet dating, the fanatic right wing, the dark, dangerous appeal of Meg Ryan, the unfathomable motivations behind the comb-over, the mysterious banana test, first love, antidepressants and the heartbreaking challenge of being a Yum! Brands Man. Pessimistic but full of longing, immersed in popular culture but oddly erudite, manic and depressive in turn, deeply and absurdly tangential, profoundly deluded and yet uncomfortably honest, liberal but utterly politically incorrect . most importantly, in the words of one reviewer, Patrick Carlisle is "so horribly, mind-bogglingly funny."