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Jan Lars Jensen - NERVOUS SYSTEM: THE STORY OF A NOVELIST WHO LOST HIS MIND - 9781840467932 - KNW0007643
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NERVOUS SYSTEM: THE STORY OF A NOVELIST WHO LOST HIS MIND

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Description for NERVOUS SYSTEM: THE STORY OF A NOVELIST WHO LOST HIS MIND Hardcover. A memoir of a novelist who almost let his imagination get the best of him. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 418.
This is a memoir in the vein of Plath's "Bell Jar". A few months after selling his first book to a major publisher, Jan Lars Jensen woke in a psychiatric ward, only to find that the ideas that had inspired his fiction now roamed through his waking nightmares. Gripping and harrowing, darkly comic and deeply moving, "Nervous System" is the memoir of a novelist who almost let his imagination get the best of him.

Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd London
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Dustjacket
Yes
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840467932
SKU
KNW0007643
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Jan Lars Jensen
Jan Lars Jensen had his first novel, Shiva 3000, listed in the Guardian as one of the top ten fantasy novels of all time. He lives in Halifax, Canada, and online at www.jensen.ca.

Reviews for NERVOUS SYSTEM: THE STORY OF A NOVELIST WHO LOST HIS MIND
"'As a brave, unflinching look at mental illness, Nervous System is revelatory; as a candid, conflicted view of the creative process, it is a revelation.' Vancouver Sun 'A weird and brilliant memoir... Jensen's writing is smooth and elegant, his narrative suspenseful, his sensibility witty... he delivers a smart and sympathetic narrator - himself - whose personal adventure, as terrifying as ... Read more

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