Hurry Down Sunshine: A Father's Memoir of Love and Madness
Michael Greenberg
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 asGirl, Interrupted and An Unquiet Mind.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Michael GreenbergPublisher: Other Press (NY)Published: 12/04/2018ISBN: 9781590519813Pages: 256Weight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d
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Book Title
Hurry Down Sunshine: A Father's Memoir of Love and Madness
ISBN
9781590519813
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Michael Greenberg
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 12/04/2018
ISBN: 9781590519813
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d
Girl, Interrupted and An Unquiet Mind.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Michael Greenberg
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 12/04/2018
ISBN: 9781590519813
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Michael Greenberg
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 12/04/2018
ISBN: 9781590519813
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d
Girl, Interrupted and An Unquiet Mind.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Michael Greenberg
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 12/04/2018
ISBN: 9781590519813
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d