FICTION

The Man Who Walked Away

by Maud Casey

Bloomsbury USA. 2014. 240p. ISBN 9781620403112. $25. F

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A man who has been wandering unaware through 19th-century Europe finally awakens from his dreamlike state and seeks psychiatric treatment, just in its infancy, to determine what drove him.

VERDICT Drawing on real-life events, Casey (The Shape of Things To Come) paints a touching portrait of a patient and his doctor as a mystery is quietly resolved.

Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , Jun 01, 2014

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