The Year You Went Away - Gansen, Steve
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A darkly comic literary novel set in the fluorescent purgatory of a psychiatric hospital tucked somewhere between the Delaware Valley and oblivion. After a humiliating reassignment from a clinical post in Chicago, Dr. Limpwick expects a quiet bureaucratic exile. Instead, he finds himself entangled in a maddening therapeutic loop with Mr. Otto, a patient whose cryptic insights and staged regressions may hold the key to Limpwick's own unraveling. As ward routines descend into stylized madness, complete with interpretive group therapy, equine-trigger experiments, and a musical pageant about…mehr

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A darkly comic literary novel set in the fluorescent purgatory of a psychiatric hospital tucked somewhere between the Delaware Valley and oblivion. After a humiliating reassignment from a clinical post in Chicago, Dr. Limpwick expects a quiet bureaucratic exile. Instead, he finds himself entangled in a maddening therapeutic loop with Mr. Otto, a patient whose cryptic insights and staged regressions may hold the key to Limpwick's own unraveling. As ward routines descend into stylized madness, complete with interpretive group therapy, equine-trigger experiments, and a musical pageant about residual shell shock, Limpwick must confront the very impulses he once repressed: guilt, desire, and the seductive possibility of total collapse. Originally written during the author's so-called "lost years" and revised decades later, The Year You Went Away is a psychological satire about systems that diagnose the mind while quietly erasing it. A blend of institutional absurdity and spiritual ache, it evokes the surreal humor of Catch-22 with the interior excavation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, although the cuckoos here are better dressed, better medicated, and deeply invested in their own demise.
Autorenporträt
Steve Gansen is a longtime editor, ghostwriter, and audiobook producer based in Bloomington, Minnesota. Over the past three decades, he has helped shape more than 100 nonfiction and memoir titles, including editorial work on Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation, Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot, and A Bloody Business: America's War Zone Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq. The Year You Went Away is the first novel he ever wrote, which he revised years later with new perspective and precision, It is his second published work of fiction, following The Founding Syndicate, which he also narrated and produced for Audible.