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The lives they left behind suitcases from a state hospital attic Cover Image Book Book

The lives they left behind [book] : suitcases from a state hospital attic / Darby Penney and Peter Stastny ; with photographs by Lisa Rinzler.

Penney, Darby. (Author). Stastny, Peter. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781934137079 (hardcover) :
  • ISBN: 1934137073 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 205 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Bellevue Literary Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-196) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
He took them on their last walk -- Who went to Willard and why did they go there? -- How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor turned into the devil incarnate) -- Children died and she knit her life away -- Like a fly in a spider web -- How people were treated at Willard -- A photographic talent: rising above the fray -- A frequent visitor to the White House -- My blood temper...resigned -- An Italian princess and a French intellectual: two ways of fighting for freedom.

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Subject: Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.). > History.
Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
Psychiatric hospitals > New York (State) > New York > History.
Psychiatric hospital patients > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history > New York.
History, 20th Century > New York.
Mental Disorders > history > New York.
Patients > New York.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at South Central Regional Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Winkler Library 362.2 Pen (Text) 35864000427284 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -

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