Nola : a memoir of faith, art, and madness / by Robin Hemley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemley, Robin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schizophrenics--United States--Biography.

Schizophrenics.

Hemley, Nola--Mental health.

Hemley, Nola.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 pages)

Edition:

First University of Iowa Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The evidence at hand: an autobiography-complete with their mother's edits-written by his brilliant and disturbingly religious sister; a story featuring actual childhood events, but published by his mother as fiction; the transcript of a hypnotherapy session from his adolescence; and perjured court documents hidden in a drawer for decades. These are the clues Robin Hemley gathers when he sets out to reconstruct the life of his older sister Nola, who died at the age of twenty-five after several years of treatment for schizophrenia.

Contents:

Table of Contents; Prologue: Larceny; The Invisible and Quiet Hand; Tearsheets; The Valley of Ednah; The Ghost on the Staircase; Her Soul's History; The Exploding Pen; Walk Away from Them; Interior Shot; Translators; The Pattern of Her Dreams; The Unbridgeable Gap; The Nonexistent Robe; Crazy; Her Diet; Jinx; Nothing I Sensed Could Corroborate or Deny Them; The Silver Sword Society; The Shiva Notebooks; A Thousand Aerial Voices; Family of Avatars; Good News; Everyday People; The Children's Ward; Listener; The Woman Who Was Absent; Voices; Young Americans with Helpful Attitudes

The Greater Joy; All in the Family; Riding the Whip; Danger, Pills; The Space between Contradictions; Rita; Quieted; A Dark and Ageless Voice; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781609381806

1609381807

OCLC:

831118206