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The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
by Mark Vonnegut
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ISBN13: 9781583225431 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
?Most diseases can be separated from one?s self ... schizophrenia is something we are.? So begins Mark Vonnegut?s depiction of his descent into, and eventual emergence from, mental illness. As a recent college graduate, self-avowed hippie, and son of a counterculture hero, Vonnegut begins to experience increasingly delusional thinking, suicidal thoughts, and physical incapacity. In February 1971 he is committed to a psychiatric hospital. The Eden Express, an ALA Notable Book first published over 25 years ago, is his honest, thoughtful, and moving account of the illness of schizophrenia. This edition features a new foreword by Kurt Vonnegut and a new preface by the author. ?Required reading for those who want to understand insanity from the inside.? ? The New York Times
Review:
"One of the best books about going crazy....Required reading for those who want to understand insanity from the inside." The New York Times
Review:
"Mark Vonnegut?s remembrance of what it was like in the 1960s is not only a memoir about his loss of political and social innocence, and ours, but a surprisingly good-natured trip through his own head." Los Angeles Times
Review:
"A remarkable book." The Atlantic
Review:
"A painfully honest document of life in transition." Time
Synopsis:
New edition with new foreword by Kurt Vonnegut.
About the Author
After writing The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut went to medical school. He lives with his wife and two children in Milton, Mass., where he is a full-time practicing pediatrician.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781583225431
- Subtitle:
- A Memoir of Insanity
- Foreword:
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
- Foreword:
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Seven Stories Press
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Essays
- Subject:
- Mental Illness
- Subject:
- Specific Groups - Special Needs
- Subject:
- Schizophrenics
- Subject:
- PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY / Mental Illness
- Subject:
- Vonnegut, Mark
- Edition Description:
- 1st Seven Stories Press ed.
- Series Volume:
- no. 74
- Publication Date:
- November 2002
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 8.22x5.54x.61 in. .77 lbs.
