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Scream queens of the Dead Sea  Cover Image Book Book

Scream queens of the Dead Sea / Gilad Elbom.

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  • ISBN: 1568583222 (cloth) :
  • Physical Description: 295 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ; 2004.
Subject: Psychiatric hospitals > Employees > Fiction.
Psychiatric hospital patients > Fiction.
Young men > Fiction.
Nurses > Fiction.
Jerusalem > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction. Coming-of-age fiction.
Bildungsromans. Coming-of-age fiction.

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Scream Queens of the Dead Sea
Scream Queens of the Dead Sea
by Elbom, Gilad
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Scream Queens of the Dead Sea


When a young graduate of the Israeli army decides to moonlight as an assistant nurse at a mental institution in Jerusalem, the job seems like a nice break from everyday life in the Promised Land. What could be easier than exercising power over a small group of heavily medicated zombies? But as the human inventory inside the insane asylum begins to mirror the psychotic norms of the outside world, the inexperienced ex-soldier finds himself trapped in a hilarious yet terrifying freak show, surrounded by a motley crew of mad patients gone madder: a religious poet who writes obsessive love sonnets to a Hollywood porn queen, a charming racist who wears only purple, a criminally insane murderer who doesn't believe in anything (not even in nihilism) . . . and that's just for starters. Here is a fast-and-furious first novel saturated with ruminations on sexual aberration, heavy metal, structural linguistics, horror movies, and satanic poetry - the good things in life.

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