"The Leprosarium"
| Title | "The Leprosarium" |
| Year for Search | 1978 |
| Authors | Petesch, Natalie L[evin] M[aines](b.1924) |
| Secondary Title | Seasons Such As These. Two Novels |
| Pagination | 7-57 |
| Date Published | 1978 |
| Publisher | The Swallow Press |
| Place Published | Chicago, IL |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | Dystopia in which a large insurance company punishes those who deviate from its rules by incarcerating them in the Leprosarium where large numbers of people are kept together but prohibited from most contact, with such contact warranting further physical punishment. Those who survive are sent to isolated islands, where they take large doses of the drug orgone, which causes hallucinations. |
| Illustration | Illus. Barbara Mueller |
| Holding Institutions | MoU |
| Author Note | Female author (b. 1924). |
| Full Text | 1978 Petesch, Natalie L[evin] M[aines] (b. 1924). “The Leprosarium.” In her Seasons Such As These. Two Novels. Illus. Barbara Mueller (Chicago, IL: The Swallow Press, 1978), 7-57. MoU Dystopia in which a large insurance company punishes those who deviate from its rules by incarcerating them in the Leprosarium where large numbers of people are kept together but prohibited from most contact, with such contact warranting further physical punishment. Those who survive are sent to isolated islands, where they take large doses of the drug orgone, which causes hallucinations. Female author. |
