The Treatment and the Cure
Peter Kocan, . . Europa, $14.95 (239pp) ISBN 978-1-933372-45-7
As a young man, Australian native Kocan (b. 1947) was sentenced to life imprisonment after a failed attempt to assassinate a member of Parliament and served 10 years in a mental hospital for the criminally insane. In these two linked novellas, Kocan fictionalizes his time there. The plot turns on protagonist Len's various transfers from maximum to progressively lesser-security wards: paradoxically and ironically, with each security downgrade, the inmates become loonier, and Len finds he has more to lose. Carelessly administered treatments lead to
Reviewed on: 04/28/2008
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 245 pages - 978-0-8008-7867-2
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