Description
Title: Hurry Down Sunshine: A Father’s Story of Love and Madness
Author: Michael Greenberg
ISBN: 9780307473547
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 256
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher :
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Hurry Down Sunshine is an extraordinary family story and a memoir of exceptional power. In it, 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 most sweltering months. It is a tale of a family broken open, then painstakingly, movingly stitched together Greenberg’s unforgettable cast of characters are 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 alongside classics such as
Girl, Interrupted and
An Unquiet Mind.
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