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The story looks back at the past and incidents in the family history which could have contributed to Norman’s condition. The Council by resolution appoints at least two of its own members, whom it also has power to remove. And then occasionally she throws in a startling anecdote in the same simple direct prose, leaving the reader reeling.

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Rubens portrayal of the mental hospital is not as broad as One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (I refer to the movie, not the book, which I haven’t read). The sentiment might not be all that far from Philip Larkin's "They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad", but the fact that it is taken from RD Laing's The Politics Of Experience is something of an eyebrow raiser. By contrast, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas has cleared about 17,000, while Amis's Yellow Dog scraped 50,000. While not an uplifting story, it is a revealing tale of how love and pain and hurt and guilt can coexist in a family.Norman Zweck is committed to a mental hospital due to the hallucinations he suffers because of his addiction to amphetamines. The Elected Member was a enjoyable read, filled with humor despite its tragic elements, and hope in the face of despair and crisis. Norman Zweck, for instance, the lead character, is clearly and quite traditionally mad - suffering extreme amphetamine psychosis and desperately in need of a spell in a psychiatric institution to straighten out. But in his early 40s, the infant prodigy turned brilliant barrister becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom at the mercy of his hallucinations. The Elected Member was the second winner of the 1970 Booker Prize, after Something to Answer For by P.

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They represent public interest as well as individuals living within the ward in which he or she has been elected to serve a term of office. Bernice Rubens is the first woman to win the Booker Prize, in 1970, for The Elected Member, which is a remarkable novel, albeit it only has a Wikipedia page with about thirty words – while at the same time, let us say a book by Dan Brown is probably getting thousands of words, multiple chapters and undeserved popularity, if compared with works that are more rewarding, in the long run – although this is a complex, psychological, sad, insightful, challenging, memorable, intriguing narrative which has some dark, morbid humor – let us just mention the case of Mrs. Equally sad is the self-delusion of the father proclaiming to anyone who will listen that he just needs to find the man selling him the drugs and Norman would be free. It was just too neatly wrapped up in some cathartic coming together of the remaining family members united at the deathbed of the patriarch and (we are led to imagine); with Norman cleansed.Having reviewed Newby’s book recently, I noted that both the first winner and this book have protagonists who are suffering some kind of mental breakdown. His father, the elderly Rabbi Zweck, and his sister Bella, decide that the only option for them is to commit him to a mental institution. Bernice Rubens’s Norman Zweck is committed to a mental hospital after his addiction to white pills has made his hallucinations and emotional outbursts unbearable for his Rabbi father, Abraham, and his sister, Bella.