Can I read The Umbrella : Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 on EtoBox?

The Umbrella : Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 by self, will is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Umbrella : Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 about?

A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce, Ulysses It is 1971, and Zachary Busner is a maverick psychiatrist who has just begun working at a mental hospital in suburban north London. As he tours the hospitals wards, Busner notes that some of the patients are exhibiting a very peculiar type of physical tic: rapid, precise movements that they repeat over and over. These patients do not react to outside stimuli and are trapped inside an internal world. The patient that most draws Busners interest is a certain Audrey Dearth, an elderly woman born in the slums of West London in 1890, who is completely withdrawn and catatonically tics with her hands, turning handles and spinning wheels in the air. Busners investigations into the condition of Audrey and the other patients alternate with sections told from Audreys point of view, a stream of memories of a bustling bygone Edwardian London where horse-drawn carts roamed the streets. In internal monologue, Audrey recounts her childhood, her work as a clerk in an umbrella shop, her time as a factory munitionette during World War I, and the very different fates of her two brothers. Busners attempts to break through to Audrey

Who reads The Umbrella : Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012?

Author

self, will

Publisher

Bloomsbury UK; Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781408831670

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.16 / 5 (1,344 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13