Count All This

by P.C. Fergusson

ISBN: 978-0-615-20087-3

Publisher: Four Sisters Publishing

Rights Owner: Four Sisters Publishing

Language: English

Country: United States

Paperback book $14.94 Add to Cart

Printed: 276 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, black and white interior ink

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Jo Kasten’s middle child has always been difficult. Fiery, defiant, startlingly handsome and hyper intelligent, Eddy’s childhood years were full of turmoil and conflict. But when he reaches manhood, things change--for the worse. Eddy’s struggle with schizophrenia begins in a men’s bathroom at a local junior college and carries him to the deepest recesses of the human mind. In the midst of his descent, Jo is diagnosed with breast cancer. Count All This is a story of love, madness, death, family loyalty and the primal bond between mothers and sons. Set in the frightening landscape of mental illness and physical disease, Count All This is a story of survival. Review a few chapters at http://www.countallthis.blogspot.com, then come back to buy your copy here.

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COUNT ALL THIS by P.C. Fergusson

26 May 2007 (updated 28 May 2007)

by jeffreyspencer

P.C. Fergusson has written a fascinating crisis novel. The book concerns the descent of a woman and her son, she into the limbo of cancer, he into mental illness, and both into an archetypal struggle suggestive of classic conflicts that affect all human beings. No tedious melodrama or arid fictional medical case history, the novel is the journey of discovery by a woman trying to survive the attack on her body, and trying to understand the dark passage upon which her son is embarked. Ms Fergusson's prose is evocative and lucid. The book is difficult to put down. Her effects are achieved by subtle drawing, and through the eyes and mind of a deftly rendered protagonist who is a detective in search of the meaning behind the malignity subverting her family. The book is also a brilliant picture of the lives of the people in the Caiifornia Bay Area. Ms Fergusson has written as nearly perfect a novel as I have seen.

The only hope, or else despair/Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre---/To be redeemed from fire by fire. "Little Gidding" T.S. Eliot (IV, ll.204-206) Review by J. Spencer

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