Angelhead Greg Bottoms

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Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness Greg Bottoms

Set in Tidewater, Virginia, in the 1980s and early 1990s, this volume documents the violent, drug-addled descent of the author's brother, Michael, into paranoid schizophrenia. From Micheal's first psychotic break aged 14 - out of his mind on acid, seeing God in his suburban bedroom window - through a series of petty crimes, bizarre disappearances, and suicide attempts to the shocking crime that landed him in the psychiatric wing of a maximum-security prison. This book enables the reader to witness first-hand the fragmenting of a mind and a family. The author's prose offers no consolation or easy answers - simply emotional precision and hard truth.

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Like any great work of art, Angelhead reads as if it were written to save the author's life. In that manner, it's a necessary book, one that will undoubtedly make you think about how relatively sane your little life seems. The doctors finally called Michael a paranoid schizophrenic, but where's the awful beauty in that? Far more interesting is the fire-and-brimstone brilliance of the writing that amounts to the author's own diagnosis. I'd been sucked into Michael and God and Satan's void, Bottoms writes, an upside-down world where dreams were as solid as stone. I wanted, for one fleeting moment, to have hallucinated, to have broken through reality's delicate plane and into the world of the insane. - Esquire

This is a remarkable book...which sets into brilliant and devasting relief the contrast between the hellish collapse of the author's family and his brother's mind, and the relative ease and security that most of us experience as ''home''. I learnt a lot from this book - Bookseller

Über Greg Bottoms

Greg Bottoms writes regularly for on-line magazines such as Salon and Nerve. This is his first book.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR002428162

ISBN 13

9780747252719

ISBN 10

0747252718

Titel

Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness Greg Bottoms

Autor

Greg Bottoms

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Headline Publishing Group

Datum

20010614

Anzahl der Seiten

224

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