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Relative Stranger: Piecing Together a Life Plagued by Madness
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Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt) |
Veröffentlichung: |
Februar 2008
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ISBN: |
9781847671738 |
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9781847671738 |
Verlag: |
Canongate Us |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 210 mm / B 140 mm / D 23 mm |
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399 gr |
Seiten: |
352 |
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Inhalt: |
Relative Stranger is the powerful, uncompromising memoir of Mary Loudon's search to understand the facts about the deeply troubling final years of her dead sister, Catherine. Mary, the youngest in a happy, upper-middle-class London family, had not seen Catherine for what would be the last twelve years of Catherine's life. After discovering that Catherine had been "inhabiting the identity" of a man called Stevie, Mary plunges into a postmortem investigation, interviewing doctors, nurses, social-services representatives, nuns, cafe owners, grocers, and ministers who knew Catherine. Loudon paints a portrait that lays bare the pain of schizophrenia as well as its vexing complexities. In the vein of Jeanette Walls's best-selling memoir, The Glass Castle, Relative Stranger is an honest account of how schizophrenia affected a promising young life while exploring the assumptions people make about mental illness and what it means to love, to lose, to die, and, above all, to belong.
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