{"product_id":"narcisse-on-a-tightrope-9781628973242","title":"Narcisse on a Tightrope","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor seventeen years, Narcisse Di ze, chronic sufferer of a mysterious condition called \"cerebral rheumatism\"; has lived in the protective confines of a psychiatric hospital.\u003c\/b\u003e There he has been attended by a contingent of nurses, for whom he has obligingly fathered somewhere between thirty-five and one hundred seventy-one children. (No one knows the exact number.) But the doctors abruptly decide that he is cured and prod him to reenter the outside world. Narcisse is floored, yet he gradually summons the will to try. What follows is an account of this na ve and timid patient's adventures in the realm of the so-called sane. An endearing misfit in the tradition of Walter Mitty and Forrest Gump, Narcisse is destined to totter precariously on the highwire of his existence. Will we see him fall? \u003cbr\u003eA quirky fable that pokes holes in the accepted mental health verities and pleads for a touch of madness. With an introduction by Warren Motte.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628973242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120","brand":"Olivier Targowla","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39463289979061,"sku":"9781628973242","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e0036bbd-8288-49fd-bb1a-2101d456c223.jpg?v=1615923515","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/narcisse-on-a-tightrope-9781628973242","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}