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1 y separately published work icon The Barbary Coast : An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld (International) assertion Herbert Ashbury , New York (City) : Basic Books , 2002 11088623 2002 single work prose
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), New York (City) : Basic Books , 1995 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)
1 y separately published work icon Innocents of the West : Travels through the Sixties Joan Colebrook , New York (City) : Basic Books , 1979 Z811473 1979 single work non-fiction travel
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