Little Glass Men - Softcover

Walsh, Conor

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692456279 ISBN 13: 9780692456279

Publisher: Broken Leg Books, 2015

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Saint Forester's Military Sanitarium, a post-WWI hospital for wounded and diseased veterans, stands at the corner of despair and oblivion. Staffed by a myriad of uncaring, mechanical doctors and nurses, the hospital is no place for rehabilitation - it is little more than some place for the one-time-soldiers to slowly and monotonously live out the rest of their days. Little Glass Men gives a look at the bleak day-to-day existence of several of the patients and staff at Saint Forester's. You'll meet Lombardi, the Italian with a crippled body but burning spirit. If you're fortunate perhaps you'll avoid Norman, whose grip on reality splinters further with each passing day. Garrett is about due for a visit from someone; his family certainly won't be in to check on the gaping hole where one of his lungs used to be. But of course, to see him would be to neglect another, and there's certainly no shortage of unfortunate, forgotten souls at this particular hospital...

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