Impotent

ISBN-13: 9781573661485 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 168 str.

Matthew Roberson

Opis

Impotentis a collection of moving stories about a time when "it is easier to get a refill on a prescription than approval for therapy" andindividuals are reduced to letters on a medical chart.In revealing vignettes, Matthew Roberson clinically catalogs the hopes, dreams, and failures of people identified only through form-like abbreviations (C for co-dependent, I for Insured). In these "case studies," Roberson captures his subjects' lives poignantly by supplementing their diagnoses with unconventional footnotes, lists, and medicinal warnings. Each vignette exposes a different facet of our medicated society, humanizing a multitude of conditions: depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, impotence, and dementia. In a world of domestic ennui, deadpan voices struggle to transcend numbness while simultaneously trying to manage the pain of living.Impotentis both important social commentary and engrossing fiction.
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