Life and Background of the Author.

Introduction to the Novel.

Critical Commentaries.

PART 1: They're Out There.

PART 1: When the Fog Clears.

PART 1: The New Man.

PART 1: In the Glass Station.

PART 1: Before Noontime.

PART 1: One Christmas.

PART 1: First Time for a Long, Long Time.

PART 1: Come Morning.

PART 1: All Through Breakfast.

PART 1: There's a Monopoly Game.

PART 1: There's Long Spells.

PART 1: A Visiting Doctor.

PART 1: It's Getting Hard.

PART 1: There's a Shipment of Frozen Parts.

PART 1: I Know How They Work It.

PART 2: Just at the Edge of My Vision.

PART 2: The Way the Big Nurse Acted.

PART 2: In the Group Meetings.

PART 2: Up Ahead of Me.

PART 2: Whatever It Was.

PART 2: They Take Me with the Acutes Sometimes.

PART 2: I Remember It Was Friday Again.

PART 2: Crossing the Grounds.

PART 3: After That.

PART 3: Two Whores.

PART 4: The Big Nurse.

PART 4: Up on Disturbed.

PART 4: There Had Been Times.

PART 4: I've Given What Happened Next.

Character Analyses.

Critical Essays.

CliffsNotes Review.

CliffsNotes Resource Center.

Index.