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A Thousand Coloured Castles
Hardcover
Series: Graphic Medicine, Book 10
Medical ReferenceGeneral Graphic Novels
ISBN13: 9780271079271
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 2017
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
Mild-mannered Myriam is diagnosed with macular degeneration in her right eye, but that doesn't explain the strange things she's been seeing: children in bright red helmets dancing on the doctor's ceiling, exotic vines growing from her television set, and thousands of colored castles forming patterns on her kitchen walls. Her husband Fred is certain that Myriam's visions are a bunch of nonsense, and her family dismisses her odd observations as the results of old age and an addled mind. So when Myriam begins to notice something off about the house next door, she has only her own instincts to trust: can she tell the difference between a trick of the eyes and a real crime?
The surreal lives side by side with the everyday in this graphic novel about life with Charles Bonnet syndrome, a condition in which a person with partial or severe blindness has complex, often bizarre hallucinations. Gareth Brookes's rich, artistic crayon drawings pull the reader into Myriam's vibrant and unnerving world, showing the frustration and fear that arise as a result of this unique condition--and the moments of unexpected beauty.
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