At the age of 15, during one long and difficult summer, Michael Greenbergs daughter, Sally, was struck mad. Her visionary crack-up occurred on the streets of Greenwich Village and continued, among other places, in the lost-in-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during New York Citys most sweltering months. Hurry Down Sunshine is Greenbergs journey toward comprehending mental illness in his own family. With touching honesty and intimacy, he reveals the effect of Sallys mania on those closest to her, including her easygoing brother, her stalwart grandmother, her new-age mother, her artistic, loving stepmotherand, finally, on himself. Unsentimental, nuanced and deeply humane, Hurry Down Sunshine is a transcendent memoir about mental illness and the restorative power of one fathers love for his daughter.
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Michael Greenberg, a native New Yorker, is a columnist for the Times Literary Supplement (London), where his wide-ranging essays have been appearing since 2003. His fiction, criticism and travel pieces have been published widely. He lives in New York with his wife and nine-year-old son.
Titel
Hurry Down, Sunshine
Untertitel
A Memoir
Autor
EAN
9781554689163
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
01.06.2010
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
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240
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