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A Bipolar Life
Houghton Mifflin
April 2008
On Sale: April 9, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0618754458
EAN: 9780618754458
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From the author of the best-selling "Wasted", an astonishing
dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disease,
reflecting major new insights. When Marya Hornbacher
published her first book,"Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and
Bulimia", she did not yet know the reason for her
all-but-shattered young life. At age twenty-four, Hornbacher
was diagnosed with Type 1 rapid-cycle bipolar, the most
severe form of bipolar disease there is. In "Madness", in
her trademark wry and utterly self-revealing voice,
Hornbacher tells her new story. Through scenes of
astonishing visceral and emotional power, she takes us
inside her own desperate attempts to control violently
careening mood swings by self-starvation, substance abuse,
numbing sex, and self-mutilation. How Hornbacher fights her
way up from a madness that all but destroys her, and what it
is like to live in a difficult and sometimes beautiful life
and marriagewhere bipolar always beckonsis at the heart of
this brave and heart-stopping memoir. "Madness" delivers the
revelation that Hornbacher is not alone: there are millions
of people in America struggling with a variety of disorders
that may mask their true diagnosis of bipolar. Also,
Hornbachers fiercely self-aware portrait of her own bipolar
as early as age four will powerfully change the current
debate on whether bipolar in children exists. Ten years
after Kay Redfield Jamisons "An Unquiet Mind", this storm of
a memoir will provoke, educate, and move.
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