Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness
Autor Greg Bottomsen Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2005
An unforgettable memoir of madness and family that Esquire named one of the best books of the year
A taut, powerful memoir of madness, Angelhead documents the violent, drug-addled descent of the author's brother, Michael, into schizophrenia. Beginning with Michael's first psychotic break—seeing God in his suburban bedroom window while high on LSD—Greg Bottoms recounts, in gripping, dramatic prose, the bizarre disappearances, suicide attempts, and the shocking crime that land Michael in the psychiatric wing of a maximum security prison. A work of nonfiction with the form and imagery of a novel, Angelhead enables the reader to witness not only the fragmenting of a mind, but of a family as well.
A taut, powerful memoir of madness, Angelhead documents the violent, drug-addled descent of the author's brother, Michael, into schizophrenia. Beginning with Michael's first psychotic break—seeing God in his suburban bedroom window while high on LSD—Greg Bottoms recounts, in gripping, dramatic prose, the bizarre disappearances, suicide attempts, and the shocking crime that land Michael in the psychiatric wing of a maximum security prison. A work of nonfiction with the form and imagery of a novel, Angelhead enables the reader to witness not only the fragmenting of a mind, but of a family as well.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226067643
ISBN-10: 0226067645
Pagini: 227
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226067645
Pagini: 227
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Greg Bottoms is assistant professor of English at the University of Vermont. He has published stories and essays in Alaska Quarterly Review, Creative Nonfiction, Nerve, and Salon.
Cuprins
God: A Memory
Middle-Class
Sacrifice
Secrets
Penance
Jesus
Florida
Science
Delinquints
Assistance
Demons
Confession
Infamy
Absence
Intent
Evidence
Apocrypha
Acknowledgments
Middle-Class
Sacrifice
Secrets
Penance
Jesus
Florida
Science
Delinquints
Assistance
Demons
Confession
Infamy
Absence
Intent
Evidence
Apocrypha
Acknowledgments
Recenzii
"I am on record as believing that any day is better when I am not asked to read another memoir. But Greg Bottoms' book caught my attention immediately and drew me in. I read it all in one sitting. . . . Angelhead is direct, inventive, clearly imagined, and packs a punch."
"Greg Bottoms has provided a biographical novel about his brother that may be as close as most of us will ever get to knowing what it is to be truly mad. Angelhead is a story nearly as terrifying as the disease it describes."
"One of the most harrowing portraits of madness in recent memory."
"From 'Angelhead's' stirring first line, 'My brother saw the face of God' . . . Greg Bottom maps out the seemingly unmappable destruction of a family in suburbia. This is creative nonfiction at its finest."
"A tour-de-force memoir. . . . Bottoms writes like a poet, he writes as if he's on fire."
"Is a blood bond strong enough to insulate against hate? That's the core issue the Greg Bottoms examines in his brutal, mesmerizing pseudo-memoir. . . . Angelhead is a brilliant, albeit inconceivably sad book. The fact that Bottoms survived the ordeal is incredible. But the fact that he could write about it with such pathos and insight is nothing less than extraordinary."
"One of the saddest, scariest and most powerful memoirs I've read."
"The whole work has the beauty of hard, painful truth, arrived at through intelligence, art, and compassion. This is one of the most moving books I've read in a long, long time."