by JaniceGalloway (Author)
An account from the inside of a mind cracking up...its writing is as taut as a bowstring. From brilliant title to closing injunction, it hums with intelligence, clarity, wit; and, its heroine's struggle for order and meaning seduces our minds, exposes how close we all of us are to insanity. Joy, as Galloway's heroine reluctantly lets us know that she's called, is simply that dangerous step or two nearer the edge' LISTENER.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Mar 1991
ISBN 10: 0749391731
ISBN 13: 9780749391737
Book Overview: Galloway invites us into the mind of a woman on the edge, in a novel which 'resembles Tristram Shandy as rewritten by Sylvia Plath.' New York Times