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Ross David Burke Ross David Burke i(A13019 works by) (a.k.a. Ross Burke)
Born: Established: 1953 ; Died: Ceased: 1985
Gender: Male
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3 1 y separately published work icon When the Music's Over : A Journey into Schizophrenia Ross David Burke , Robin Hammond (editor), Richard Gates (editor), Armidale : University of New England Press , 1993 Z100063 1993 single work autobiography novel

'Written in mental hospitals, in jail, and while its author was functioning in the community, this book is an intense, intimate portrait of the inner life of a schizophrenic. As soon as Burke finished this autobiographical "novel" in 1985, he took a massive overdose of drugs and ended a life that been plagued by paranoid schizophrenia for more than a decade.' (Publisher)
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