The Forgotten Condition of Things
a novel by
Robert Froese
2001, paperback, 299pp
ISBN 0-9715382-0-4
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Forgotten Condition of Things
Evelyn Moore, a clinical psychologist, has joined the staff of a mental hospital on the edge of the Maine North Woods. Now, attending daily to the disintegrating personalities of others, she finds her own fragile identity, stitched together out of her troubled past, beginning to unravel. Moreover, the hospital, known to the patients as "The House," awakens in Evelyn a growing and tangible dread. Does the institution harbor some malevolence? But soon Evelyn's attention turns to Sophie, a young patient whose wild life has brought her to the hospital in handcuffs. Sophie views the world differently. She doesn't speak to the hospital staff but communicates with spirits. Here in this enigmatic insitution, where the boundaries between physical and mental realities continually shift and blur, these two women look for their separate salvations through one another and through the alliance of spirits and patients inhabiting The House.
"How could you not be swept away by a book of precisely crafted
sentences: prose written with the kind of attention to detail readers
hardly ever see anymore. You don't skip a sentence in this finely
structured novel; you pause and go back and read it again for the
lyricism there to be savored."
---Bangor Daily News
'Robert Froese . . . has crafted a piece of hushed beauty and
subtle terror.'
---The Portland Phoenix
'. . . a beautiful novel, subtle and moving, a work of astounding
profundity. The characters are impressively well-drawn and convey
great psychological richness.'
---Violaine Huisman, Seven Stories Press
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