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The memory palace : [a memoir]  Cover Image Book Book

The memory palace : [a memoir] / Mira Bartok.

Bartók, Mira. (Author). Herr, Norma Kurap, 1926-2007 (Added Author).

Summary:

A gorgeous memoir about the 17 year estrangement of the author and her homeless schizophrenic mother, and their reunion.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781439183311 (hc.)
  • Physical Description: 305 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York ; Toronto : Free Press, c2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Other title from jacket and spine
Formatted Contents Note:
The order of things -- The subterranean world -- Medusa -- Passion flower -- The eye of Goya -- Cave girl -- My year with Audubon -- The vigilance of Dolphins -- Changelings -- The museum of indelible things -- Death, the rider -- The new world -- Forgeries and illuminations -- Galilee -- Rabbits -- Oracle bone -- Palimpsest -- In the palace of Kalachakra -- Into the land of birds and fire -- A cabinet of wonders.
Subject: Herr, Norma Kurap, 1926-2007.
Bartók, Mira.
Children of the mentally ill > United States > Biography.
Mentally ill parents > United States > Biography.

Available copies

  • 16 of 17 copies available at Sitka.

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  • 0 current holds with 17 total copies.
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Boissevain-Morton Library B/Bartok (Text) 3626600009284 Adult Non-fiction Volume hold Available -
Burns Lake Public Library 362.2085092 Bar (Text) 35198000420464 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Castlegar Public Library 362.2085092 BAR (Text) 35146001688373 Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Coquitlam College 362.208 BAR c.1 (Text) BCCO2712 Non-Fiction Shelves Volume hold Available -
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Fort St. John Public Library 362.2085092 BAR (Text) 35211000068462 ADULT Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
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