The contortionist's handbook

Craig Clevenger

Original title: The Contortionist's Handbook

earliest edition we have, 2002 MacAdam/Cage, 2002 199 pages

"The Contortionist's Handbook is the story of John Dolan Vincent, a talented young forger with a proclivity for mathematics and drug addiction. A misguided attempt at self-medicating his severe migraines lands him in a mental hospital awaiting a psychiatric evaluation - not his first time being on the brink of involuntary commitment. He knows that to be examined twice is to ensure being institutionalized as a suicide...

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The Contortionist's Handbook hardcover · 2005 · Fourth Estate · 208 pages · 9780007194162
The contortionist's handbook edition · 2002 · MacAdam/Cage · 199 pages

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