Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
A Memoir
$34.72
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2012
Summary
The son of Kurt Vonnegut offers a beautifully rendered account of the past thirty-five years of his life–from his acceptance to Harvard Medical School and subsequent brilliant career in pediatrics to the terrifying return of the voices that haunted him as a young man.More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling, and learni…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385343800 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0385343809 |
| Author: | Mark Vonnegut |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Doubleday Dell |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 207g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 131mm x 12mm |
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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“Vonnegut has written a searingly honest account of a particular kind of hell and managing to triumph despite everything—a true thing of value.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“[Mark] Vonnegut shares with his late father a knack for throwing down sentences—many sentences—of such naked wit and intelligence they make a reader stop for an extra beat.”—San Jose Mercury News
“[A] remarkable new memoir … many fascinating accounts of what it was like growing up with a still-struggling writer father.”—The Boston Globe
“Mark Vonnegut tells a strange and funny story in a strong, tensile style—at their frequent best, his sentences are like shards of colored glass: beautiful, but liable to cause damage.”—Palm Beach Post
“Mordantly witty, slightly subversive.”—Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Mark Vonnegut
Mark Vonnegut is the only son of the late Kurt Vonnegut and Jane Cox Vonnegut and the author of The Eden Express- A Memoir of Insanity, an ALA Notable Book. A full-time practicing pediatrician, he lives in Massachusetts with his wife and son.
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