The rapids : ways of looking at mania / Sam Twyford-Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twyford-Moore, Sam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bipolar disorder.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

'TheRapids is beautifullywritten: brimming with humour, empathy, pathos and heart. This book is an earnest,generous, and important contribution to ongoing global dialogue around mentalhealth .' - Maxine Beneba Clarke.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Ways of Being Seen

1. Let us now open on a naked man on a street corner in San Diego

Ways of Reading

2. Black backpack, crowbar, torch, book

3. A short tour through the cultural history of manic depression

4. Rapid thought generator: Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift and Kanye West's The Life of Pablo

Ways of Seeing

5. It's just too fucking too: Mania in cinema and the films of Paul Thomas Anderson

6. Under her influence

Ways of Being

7. Speak, Spalding!

8. The Reckoning

9. Carrie F [October 21, 1956-December 27, 2016]

Two Lives

10. This is all to say that I do not know the story at all

A Life

11. The rapids: a coda in cuts

Author's note

Works consulted

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-74224-427-0

OCLC:

1057687893