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Rescued from the squalor of a Romanian orphanage, and adopted by the rural community of west Mayo, J. J. O'Malley should have grown up happy. The boy has no gift for it, though, and his new life has a brutal way of giving him plenty to be unhappy about. After a sudden tragedy, J. J. suffers a catastrophic mental breakdown. Unable to live with himself, he volunteers for an improbable government project which has been set up to explore the possibility of using deep coma as a future option within the EU penal system. When his coma goes online the nation turns to watch, and J. J. is quickly elevated to the status of cultural icon. Sex symbol, existential hero, T-shirt philosopherβhis public profile now threatens to obscure the man himself behind a swirl of media profiles, online polls, and EEG tracings.
Five narratorsβhis father, neighbour, teacher, public representative, and sweetheartβtell us the true story of his life and try to give some clue as to why...
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Een jongeman meldt zich als vrijwilliger bij een experimenteel project van het ministerie van Justitie.
<p>Rescued from the squalor of a Romanian orphanage, and adopted by the rural community of west Mayo, J. J. O'Malley should have grown up happy. The boy has no gift for it, though, and his new life has a brutal way of giving him plenty to be unhappy about. After a sudden tragedy, J. J. suffers a cat
5 unnumbered pages, 200 pages ; 20 cm
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199 pages ; 21 cm
<p>A memoir of astonishing powerΠ²Πβthe true story of a middle-class, middle-aged man who fell into the Inferno of the American prison system, and what he has to do to survive.<br /></p><p>It is your worst nightmare. You wake up in an 8' x 6' concrete-and-steel cell designated "Suicide Watch #3." The