Keep Breathing Out
Book Details
- Publisher : Kennedy & Boyd
- Published : January 2000
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 208
- Category :
Selected Fiction, Biography and Memoir - Catalogue No : 34875
- ISBN 13 : 9781849211192
- ISBN 10 : 1849211191
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Dr David Benn, a young Dublin Jew, arrives at Saint Elba’s Mental Hospital in Dargle. He’s the new locum, and it’s 1969, when strange things were actually happening. A time when some challenging ideas were translated into actions. Even in the small, closed Catholic community where a love affair takes its course.
“Diseases of locums.” David read aloud from the book. “It says here that locums suffer anxiety, a nameless dread, a sense that the world is going to suddenly come to an end.” He turned the page. “They envy those with long term security.” “Sounds everyday stuff for your average Yid.”
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'Keep Breathing Out is a gem of a novel. With humour and pathos it traces the outside and inside lives of the characters, primarily that of the "locum", David Benn. The "locum" represents, in so many ways, the curious life of living on the border - an insider on the outside and the outsider on the inside - in Ireland in the 60s - a tradition and culture so exquisitely evoked here in its detail, and its need for, yet resistance to, change. Maurice White clearly speaks from experience: we find here the doctor, the psychiatrist and the psychoanalyst-to-be - long a "locum" in life's battles, from being the tubercular invalid boy to the Jewish psychiatrist at St Elba's mental asylum, somewhere south of Dublin. The book is at once racey and iconoclastic, it is about love and loss and it not a stranger to the darkness of human relations. It has a quirky detail of insight which keeps the pages rapidly turning.'
- Margot Waddell
About the Author(s)
Born an Irish Jew in Dublin, Maurice White graduated in medicine then psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin. Later, he trained and worked as a Kleinian Psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London, where he became a Fellow. While a Consultant at Wormwood Scrubs he treated sex offenders and murderers, and also worked in mental hospitals in Ireland, England and Canada. A journalist and broadcaster, his hobbies have included backyard pigs and horse racing.
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