THE MADMAN´S TALE

By Jhon Katzenbach

Summary

 

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 It begins in 1979, when twenty-one-year-old Petrel descends into the state-run purgatory of an overcrowded, understaffed Massachusetts mental hospital. Surrounded by inmates roaming the halls like drugged zombies and raving behind locked doors, well-meaning orderlies, jaded nurses, and patronizing doctors, Francis finds friendship with a motley assortment of fellow patients: a would-be Napoleon, a wise ex-firefighter, and a man obsessed with battling imagined devils. But there’s nothing imaginary about the young nurse found sexually assaulted and brutally murdered late one night after lights-out.

  MAIN MESSAGE

•Sometimes the crazy people see the world in a better way than the normal people

•We are afraid of changes. We are scared to stay the same. We are terrified of anything out of the ordinary, or a change in routine