Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression by Casey

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Narrative Type
Motivational
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Book
Intended Audience
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ISBN
9780688170318
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0688170315
ISBN-13
9780688170318
eBay Product ID (ePID)
486458

Product Key Features

Book Title
Unholy Ghost : Writers on Depression
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychopathology / Depression, General, Mental Health, Neuropsychology, Essays
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Psychology
Author
Nell Casey
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
21 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-040098
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
616.85/27
Synopsis
Unholy Ghost is a unique collection of essays about depression that, in the spirit of William Styron's Darkness Visible, finds vivid expression for an elusive illness suffered by more than one in five Americans today. Unlike any other memoir of depression, however, Unholy Ghost includes many voices and depicts the most complete portrait of the illness. Lauren Slater eloquently describes her own perilous experience as a pregnant woman on antidepressant medication. Susanna Kaysen, writing for the first time about depression since Girl, Interrupted, criticizes herself and others for making too much of the illness. Larry McMurtry recounts the despair that descended after his quadruple bypass surgery. Meri Danquah describes the challenges of racism and depression. Ann Beattie sees melancholy as a consequence of her writing life. And Donald Hall lovingly remembers the "moody seesaw" of his relationship with his wife, Jane Kenyon. The collection also includes an illuminating series of companion pieces. Russell Banks's and Chase Twichell's essays represent husbandand-wife perspectives on depression; Rose Styron's contribution about her husband's struggle with melancholy is paired with an excerpt from William Styron's Darkness Visible; and the book's editor, Nell Casey, juxtaposes her own essay about seeing her sister through her depression with Maud Casey's account of this experience. These companion pieces portray the complicated bond -- a constant grasp for mutual understandingforged by depressives and their family members. With an introduction by Kay Redfield Jamison, Unholy Ghost allows the bewildering experience of depression to be adequately and beautifully rendered. The twenty-two stories that make up this book will offer solace and enlightenment to all readers.
LC Classification Number
RC537.U546 2001

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