Prism

a memoir as fiction

Hardcover, 256 pages

English language

Published Feb. 11, 2001 by Apache Beach Publications.

ISBN:
9781930253117
OCLC Number:
53375322

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4 stars (2 reviews)

2 editions

Memoir as fiction

3 stars

This is a fictionalized memoir of Chesbro's life. To me it was an interesting read but the narrator's (author's) emotional distance made it rough going for me at times so I often set it aside for a while (thus the 4+ years to complete). The sections about teaching in the ARK unit were the most interesting to me but they also displayed a LOT of emotional distancing (which was likely needed in the context of a youth psychiatric correction unit)

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Subjects

  • Authors -- Fiction.
  • Middle-aged men -- Fiction.
  • Psychiatric hospitals -- Fiction.