An account of a week in the life of a disenfranchised young man, secret and not-so-secret road rager, supermarket rager, curser of the aged and the unborn alike, whose tale is threaded with a second narrative, that of Luke and Darren, whose fate may or may not be linked with his.
"Autobiografie" van een man die nooit heeft kunnen praten en door een jeugdtrauma het gebruik van zijn spieren volledig heeft verloren.
Winner of the 1988 Whitbread Award, "The Comforts of Madness" is narrated by a catatonic who never speaks. To the rest of the world he is an inert body and is subjected to a variety of experiments, but his own consciousness is vital and reflective.