Nineteen-year-old Len Tarbutt is serving a life sentence for attempted murder. Following a brief period in jail, he is transferred to the maximum-security ward of a mental hospital. After many months and countless clinical evaluations, he is finally allowed the promise of release. But freedom isn't as near as it seems. The machinations of a mental health practice that is nothing less than criminal threatens to overpower him. Reassembling the fragments of his damaged psyche into a healthy wholeness will prove to be a task ...
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Nineteen-year-old Len Tarbutt is serving a life sentence for attempted murder. Following a brief period in jail, he is transferred to the maximum-security ward of a mental hospital. After many months and countless clinical evaluations, he is finally allowed the promise of release. But freedom isn't as near as it seems. The machinations of a mental health practice that is nothing less than criminal threatens to overpower him. Reassembling the fragments of his damaged psyche into a healthy wholeness will prove to be a task almost beyond his reach. This is the story of a young man's progression from the hells of depression and jail, to the temporary limbo of incarceration, and finally to the imperfect possibility of redemption and recovery. The novel's ample ensemble of droll characters and moments of absurdity and anarchy will remind readers of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The Treatment and its award-winning sequel, The Cure, presented here as a single story offer a compelling, disturbing, and often humorous account of one man's fight to survive incarceration and return to a life worth living.
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Fine in Fair jacket. Size: 5 3/4" X 8 1/2"; FINE / DJ FAIR. 245 pp. With the exception of some slight smudging on the fore edges, book is in like-new condition: no marks, no damage. Boards covered with grey fabric, black on spine with silver titling, fresh and new looking. No bumps or rubbing. Dust jacket has absorbed all the punishment: rip on the front top edge, upper back corner ripped and missing a piece, rubbing and bump damage all along the top edge, smudges and fading on all sides. Summary: book itself like-new; dj tattered.
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