Politics of the Asylum

Steiner, Adam

ISBN 10: 1911331868 / ISBN 13: 9781911331865

Published by Urbane Publications, 2018

About this Item

Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Politics of the Asylum
• Publisher: Urbane Publications
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911331868
• ISBN 13: 9781911331865
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Nathan Finewax is a cleaner in a hospital steadily falling apart. He's working on a ward where staff cheat, lie and steal to get ahead, where targets, death tolls and finance overrule patient care, and every day the same mistakes are repeated in a seemingly unstoppable wave of failures. Nathan is sucked deeper into the hospital routine as he dreams of escape, trying to avoid one day becoming a patient himself in this house of horrors. Based on the author's experience working in the NHS, Politics of the Asylum is a nightmare vision of the modern healthcare system. Adam Steiner's challenging debut is a novel for our times, and an emotive and highly original story of people trying to do more than simply exist.

About the Author

Adam Steiner's poetry and fiction appear in a number of acclaimed publicatons from Rockland Lit to The Literateur. Adam was selected for the 2014 O Bheal Coventry-Cork Twin Cities Poetry Exchange and was part of the Coventry SHOOT Festival, 2014. He is former Editor of Here Comes Everyone magazine. Adam is currently running the Disappear Here project. Politics of the Asylum is Adam's debut novel.