THE TREATMENT AND THE CURE

"A little masterpiece, not only in the history of prison literature, but in that of literature itself."-"The Bulletin" Len Tarbutt is serving a life sentence for attempted homicide. After a brief period in jail, he is transferred to the maximum-security ward of a mental hospital, where moments of absurdity and anarchy will remind readers of Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," But "The Treatment" and its award-winning sequel, "The Cure," form a single story that pulses with darker and more disquieting undertones. It is a compelling, disturbing, and often humorous account of one man's fight to survive incarceration.