Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg

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 Greenberg studies environmental health. He is professor and director of the Environmental Management and Communications Group of Rutgers University; director of the U.S. DHS-funded Center for Transportation Safety, Security and Risk at Rutgers University; and associate dean of the faculty of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. In addition to more than 25 books, professor Greenberg has contributed more than 300 articles and 40 editorials to social science and policy journals and has written more than 200 technical reports. He has been a member of National Research Council Committees that focus on the destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile and nuclear weapons; chemical waste management; and the degradation of the U.S. government physical infrastructure. He has received awards for research from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Society for Professional Journalists, the Public Health Association, the Association of American Geographers, and Society for Risk Analysis. He serves as associate editor for environmental health for the American Journal of Public Health, and is editor-in-chief of Risk Analysis: An International Journal.

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ISBN 13	9781590511916
ISBN 10	1590511913
Title	Hurry Down Sunshine
Author	Michael Greenberg
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Other Press (NY)
Year published	2008-09-15
Number of pages	234
Prizes	Winner of New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award (Nonfiction) 2009, Runner-up for IndieFab awards (Autobiography/Memoir) 2008, Commended for Indies Choice Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2009
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