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A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest. On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an £80 inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the intrusion of disability; a trip hazard in the middle of an unsuitable room, slowly deflating and in constant danger of falling apart. Sanatorium moves through contrasting spaces -- bathtub to thermal pool, land to water, day to night -- interlacing memoir, poetry and meditations on the body to create a mesmerising, mercurial debut
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Sanatorium, Abi Palmer
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- Released
- 2020
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- Title
- Sanatorium
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Abi Palmer
- Publisher
- Penned in the Margins
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1908058714
- ISBN13
- 9781908058713
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Health & Medicine, Poetry, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Medicine, Disability
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest. On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an £80 inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the intrusion of disability; a trip hazard in the middle of an unsuitable room, slowly deflating and in constant danger of falling apart. Sanatorium moves through contrasting spaces -- bathtub to thermal pool, land to water, day to night -- interlacing memoir, poetry and meditations on the body to create a mesmerising, mercurial debut