CORRIDORS

by Edith Milton ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1967

Superficially, which is perhaps the best way to read this story since one is never quite sure of its real intentions or convinced that they are genuine. Corridors takes place in the ""reduced universe"" of a private mental hospital. Reduced indeed, since Abe Farer who tells the story and who takes a job there as an aide, has been the victim of the much less localized pattern of dislocation, violence, and guilt since he grew up in Nazi Germany. In fact a good deal of his only half-remembered past is dubbed in new as he tries to figure out just who killed Ruth Lynch, a nurse with whom he has now initiated an affair. Ruth is savagely beaten to death and Abe would like to impute the guilt to a Nazi homosexual to ease his own latest need for revenge, even though, by the close, he finds that the answer is neither as convenient or as orderly as he would have liked.... The book too leaves a lot to be explained away, indulging as it does in free association between patients and personnel, moving from the Center to the wilder shores of the East Village, etc. But Miss Milton writes well enough, with an ironic incisiveness, and a cool, contemporary intelligence, to hook the reader throughout the disturbed proceedings.

Pub Date: March 1, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Delacorte

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1967

Categories: FICTION