Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
Hurry Down Sunshine is about tenacity and tenderness.but mostly it's about love. --OPRAH WINFREY AN AMAZON BEST BOK OF THE MONTH PICK 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.Michael R. Greenberg is an urban studies professor at Rutgers University. Edward J. Director of the Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307473547 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307473546 |
| Title | Hurry Down Sunshine |
| Author | Michael Greenberg |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2009-09-08 |
| Number of pages | 235 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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