Peter Pitzele

Perfect Beauty

A Novel

Buch

In the summer of 1984, Parthia Alexander, a 25-year-old New York model is admitted against her will to North Forks Psychiatric Hospital, her face mutilated by her own hand.The therapist assigned to her is Vale Messenger, a woman new to this work and a single parent, trying to make the best of a second career.When Vale pieces together the secret of Parthia's past---that Parthia's father, a cosmetic surgeon, had repeatedly operated on his daughter to turn her into a perfect beauty---she is only at the beginning of an ordeal that her clinical supervisor will call one for the books.Vale never knew that madness could be such a formidable adversary… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-948796-04-0
EAN: 9781948796040
Produktnummer: 26836884
Verlag: Epigraph Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 364 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.1 cm 559 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 559

Über den Autor

Peter Pitzele worked for 16 years as a psychodramatist at a private psychiatric hospital. Previously he had been a teacher of literature at Brooklyn College. Perfect Beauty shows the psychological and literary traces of his education and working life. Peter has two other books: Our Fathers' Wells: A Personal Encounter with the Myths of Genesis, originally published by Harper SanFrancisco and republished by Ben Yehuda Press; and Scripture Windows: Towards a Practice of Bibliodrama, originally published by TorahAura and also re-published by Ben Yehuda Press. More about Peter may be found on www.peterpitzele.com