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