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Lithium Jesus : a memoir of mania / Charles Monroe-Kane.
Van Pelt Library PN1990.72.M66 A3 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Monroe-Kane, Charles, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monroe-Kane, Charles.
- Broadcasters--United States--Biography.
- Broadcasters.
- United States.
- Mentally ill--United States--Biography.
- Mentally ill.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 185 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "Charles Monroe-Kane is a natural raconteur, and boy, does he have stories to tell. Born into an eccentric Ohio clan of modern hunter-gatherers, he grew up hearing voices in his head. Over a dizzying two decades, he was many things--teenage faith healer, world traveler, smuggler, liberation theologian, ladder-maker, squatter, halibut hanger, grifter, environmental warrior, and circus manager--all the while wrestling with schizophrenia and self-medication. From Baby Doc's Haiti to the Czech Velvet Revolution, and from sex, drugs, and a stabbing to public humiliation by the leader of the free world, Monroe-Kane burns through his twenties and several bridges of youthful idealism before finally saying: enough. In a memoir that blends engaging charm with unflinching frankness, Monroe-Kane gives his testimony of mental illness, drug abuse, faith, and love. By the end of Lithium Jesus there may be a voice in your head, too, saying "Do more, be more, live more. And fear less"" -- dust jacket flap.
- Contents:
- The Jesus Years
- Summer Camp Salvation 7
- The White Suit 16
- Will the Real Uncle Gunnysack Please Stand Up? 33
- A Crack in an Open Door 45
- Flying Too Close to the Sun 59
- The Movement
- A Brand-New Jungle 65
- In the Bush Leagues 72
- Bye-Bye Leather Pants 84
- A Peace Circus Burnout 96
- Romantic at Last
- Anchors Aweigh 109
- Joy's Corduroys versus the Mutoid Waste Company 115
- Eureka: Construction Dust, Novella I in Homage to the Mrs. 128
- The Silver Lining 134
- Eureka: Nothing Closer to a Man Than a Razor Blade, Novella 2 in Homage to the Mrs. 141
- Open for Suggestions 144
- Eureka: A Hail Mary Toss, Novella 3 in Homage to the Mrs. 153
- The Italians 157.
- ISBN:
- 9780299310004
- 0299310000
- OCLC:
- 946141219
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