Hurry Down Sunshine: A Father's Memoir of Love and Madness
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Authors: |
Greenberg, Michael |
Publisher: |
Other Press |
BISAC/Subject: |
BIO026000, PSY002000, FAM020000 |
ISBN: |
9781590513255, Related ISBNs: 1590511913, 1590513258, 1590519817, 9781590511916, 9781590513255 |
Classification: |
Non-Fiction |
Number of pages: |
240, |
Audience: |
General/trade |
Synopsis: “Hurry Down Sunshine is about tenacity and tenderness...but mostly it’s about love.” —OPRAH WINFREY
AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH PICK
This international bestseller is an extraordinary family story and an exceptionally powerful memoir about coping withbipolar disorder, now with a new afterword for the ten-year anniversary edition.
Michael Greenberg recounts in vivid detail the remarkable summer when, at the age of fifteen, his daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's sudden visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's sweltering summer. It is a tale of a family broken open, then painstakingly, movingly stitched together again.
Greenberg's unforgettable cast of characters includes an unconventional psychiatrist, an Orthodox Jewish patient, a manic Classics professor, a movie producer, and a landlord with literary aspirations. Unsentimental, nuanced, and deeply humane, Hurry Down Sunshine is essential reading in the literature of affliction with such classics as Girl, Interrupted and An Unquiet Mind.
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