Convalescent Conversations Kadhim al-Hallaq Salah al-Hamdani and Sinan Antoon

Salah al-Hamdani and Sinan Antoon

Ron’s story is a mixture of laughter and sorrow

transcendental verse

an expert on Rawlings and the medical problems faced on the Burma Railway

caring and meaningful

Convalescent Conversations Kadhim al-Hallaq Salah al-Hamdani and Sinan AntoonOriginally published under the pseudonym Madeleine Vara in 1936 by Laura Riding's and Robert Graves's Seizen Press, Convalescent Conversations is one of Riding's least known works, and one of her most idiosyncratic. A novel unfolding almost entirely in dialogue form, Convalescent Conversations tells the story of Adam and Eleanor, two patients recovering from unknown maladies in a nondescript sanitarium. Through a series of increasingly esoteric