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Unholy ghost : writers on depression / edited by Nell Casey.

Van Pelt Library RC537 .U546 2001
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Casey, Nell, 1971-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Depression, Mental.
Authors--Mental health.
Authors.
Physical Description:
ix, 299 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : William Morrow, [2001]
Summary:
"Unholy Ghost" brings vivid expression to an elusive illness suffered by more than one in six Americans today. Unlike any single memoir of depression, this book has many voices: Russell Banks, Ann Beattie, Meri Danquah, Donald Hall, Susanna Kaysen, Larry McMurtry, Rose Styron, Chase Twitchell, and others.
Contents:
Introduction / Kay Redfield Jamison
A delicious placebo / Virginia Hefferman
Toys in the attic : an ars poetica under the influence / Russell Banks
One cheer for melancholy / Susanna Kaysen
Heaven and nature / Edward Hoagland
Poodle bed / Darcey Steinke
From Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen / Larry McMurtry
Noontime / Lauren Slater
Fading to gray / Lee Stringer
From Darkness visible / William Styron
Strands / Rose Styron
An unwelcome career / David Karp
Melancholy and the muse / Ann Beattie
Ghost in the house / Donald Hall
Writing the wrongs of identity / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
On living behind bars / Nancy Mairs
From The savage god / A. Alvarez
Planet No / Lesley Dormen
A melancholy of mine own / Joshua Wolf Shenk
The legacy / Martha Manning
Wish you were here / Nell Casey
A better place to live / Maud Casey.
ISBN:
0688170315
OCLC:
44117887

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