Brookner, Anita. Look At Me (New York: Pantheon, 1983) 192 p.

This is an intensely psychological story about a woman who works in a medical library which specializes in graphic representations of mental illness. Frances Hinton's job is to order photographs and mount them on cardboard and file them. The Librarian is Dr. Leventhal: "He is the sort of man who only breaks his own silence in order to utter a derogatory remark. But he is otherwise quite harmless. I would not say that we were genuinely fond of him (that would hardly be appropriate) but he is easy to work for, a mild, heavy man, probably shy, probably lonely, very correct, easily tolerated. We all get on very well." (p. 11).