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This verse novel deals with mental illness and tells of the efforts of the new superintendent at Callan Park Psychiatric Hospital to cure diseased minds.
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form, in motion, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!
What a Piece of Work: Stories
A dark story of sex, death and psychology set in and around Sydney's iconic asylum Callan Park, laid out in Dorothy Porter's nimble, heat-seeking voice.