![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My real-time review of the previous ‘headSKU’ in September 2010: Lost PlacesĪll my other real-time reviews are linked from here: (11 Oct 11) In either case, I hope it gives a useful or interesting perspective. You may wish (i) to take that risk and read my review before or during your own reading of the book, or (ii) to wait until you have finished reading it. There is no guarantee how long it will take to complete this review, whether days or years.ĬAVEAT: Spoilers are not intended but there may be inadvertent ones. A book I recently purchased from the publisher and received today. I’m due to start below another of my gradual real-time reviews, turning leitmotifs into a gestalt. ![]()
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![]() ![]() 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 marriage-where bipolar always beckons-is at the heart of this brave and heart-stopping memoir. 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. In Madness, in her trademark wry and utterly self-revealing voice, Hornbacher tells her new story. At age twenty-four, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type 1 rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disease there is. 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() With this far-ranging intertextuality, The Auguste offers a poetic and entertaining tapestry that depicts the unfortunate predicament that Algy Tuckett finds himself in. Taking this in his stride, he attempts to get to his office, or a doctor, or to awake from a bad dream, only to be side-tracked along the way by a series of events that take place in locations which are simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar to him, and include people who he knows but doesn’t know, at the same time. ![]() ![]() And not only has he become a clown, he has also grown old and decrepit. This archetype is what Algy Tuckett, a 22-year-old clerk at the Gurney and Barman wool mill, finds himself metamorphosised into on waking one morning in 1932. The ‘Auguste’ of the title refers to a type of clown - the most stupid one with exaggerated features and ragged clothes. ![]() |