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Greg Bottoms - Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness - 9780226067643 - V9780226067643
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Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness

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Description for Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 666.
A taut, powerful memoir of madness, Angelhead documents the violent, drug-addled descent of the author's brother, Michael, into schizophrenia. Beginning with Michael's first psychotic break - seeing God in his suburban bedroom window while high on LSD - Greg Bottoms recounts, in gripping, dramatic prose, the bizarre disappearances, the suicide attempts, and the shocking crime that lands Michael in the psychiatric wing of a maximum security prison. A work of nonfiction with the form and imagery of a novel, Angelhead enables the reader to witness not only the fragmenting of a mind but of a family as well.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226067643
SKU
V9780226067643
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About Greg Bottoms
Greg Bottoms is assistant professor of English at the University of Vermont. He has published stories and essays in Alaska Quarterly Review, Creative Nonfiction, Nerve, and Salon.

Reviews for Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness
"A tour-de-force memoir....Bottoms writes like a poet, he writes like he is on fire." - Esquire, Book of the Year, 2000; "Angelhead is a brilliant, albeit inconceivably sad book. The fact that Bottoms survived the ordeal is incredible. But the fact that he could write about it with such pathos and insight is nothing less than extraordinary." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution; "Greg Bottoms has provided a biographical novel about his brother that may be as close as most of us will ever get to knowing what it is to be truly mad. Angelhead is a story nearly as terrifying as the disease it describes." - Psychology Today; "Bottoms puts his sharp-edged poetic sensibility to work and has produced a tremendously unsettling yet compassionate book." - Washington Post"

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