Quitting the Nairobi Trio / Jim Knipfel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knipfel, Jim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knipfel, Jim--Mental health.

Knipfel, Jim.

Psychiatric hospital patients--Minnesota--Biography.

Psychiatric hospital patients.

Mentally ill--Minnesota--Biography.

Mentally ill.

Psychiatric hospital care.

Mental health.

Minnesota.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

285 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : J.P. Tarcher/Putnam, [2000]

Summary:

In His New Memoir, the Author Spends Six Months in a Locked-Door Psych Ward, Only to Find that Life Can be Better on the Inside.

As His Account Opens, Knipfel has Just Failed at Yet Another Frenzied Suicide Attempt and has Been Picked Up by the Police. Soon Thereafter He is Forced to Settle into a Hospital Psychiatric Ward, Waiting Until a Doctor, Whose Once-a-Week Sessions Last Ten Minutes Each, Deems Him Mentally Fit to be Released. Effectively Abandoned, Knipfel Begins His Self-Analysis and Embarks on a Series of Haphazard Skirmishes to Regain His Sanity, Make New Friends, and Devise Ways to Pass the Time.

Ultimately, a Revelation from Public Television and Insights from a Fellow Patient and the Late Comic Ernie Kovacs Provide Knipfel with a Way Out, one that Only a Paranoid, or Knipfel, Could Appreciate.

Contents:

1. Where I Am? 9

2. Eins 21

3. I See You 29

4. Zwei 45

5. Jessica Hahn 53

6. Night of Broken Glass 79

7. Drei 93

8. One of Us 99

9. Wrestling 111

10. Tri-Zeta 123

11. Vier 133

12. Frogs Got It Better 137

13. The Secret Tour 147

14. Forgetting Names and Other, You Know, Things 163

15. Day Pass 183

16. Funf 203

17. Even God Doesn't Like You 211

18. Mi, So, La 229

19. Purgatory 241

20. Free Range 257

21. Sechs 279.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1585420271

OCLC:

43441476