Tristimania by Jay Griffiths

Tristimania by Jay Griffiths

There are galaxies within the human mind, and madness wants to risk everything for the daring flight, reckless and beautiful and crazed. Everyone knows Icarus fell.But I love him for the fact that he dared to fly. Mania unfurls the invitation to fly too high, too near the sun.

Tristimania is a stark and lyrical account of the psyche in crisis. It tells the story of a devastating year-long episode of manic depression, culminating in a long solo pilgrimage across Spain. The book is rare in recording the experience of mania and shows how the condition is at once terrifying and also profoundly creative, both tricking and treating the psyche. In exploring its literary influence, Griffiths looks at Shakespeare's work, and examines the Trickster role, tracing its mercuriality through the character of Mercury. An intimate, raw journey, the book illuminates something of the universal human spirit.

Jay Griffiths is a British writer, author of Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time and Wild: An Elemental Journey. She won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for the best new non-fiction writer to be published in the USA for Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time in 2003, and the inaugural Orion Book Award.

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ISBN 13	9781619029460
ISBN 10	1619029464
Title	Tristimania
Author	Jay Griffiths
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Counterpoint
Year published	2017-06-13
Number of pages	224
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