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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Realistic and difficult to read. While I validate the importance of a parent's experience of their child's experience through mental illness, I would have rather read the story recounted by the daughter. I read this book in bits and pieces, perhaps a testament to the traumatic realism of the book.  freckled | Oct 31, 2009 |  A father's memoir of the summer his daughter had a "crack-up," the gripping story describes her hospitalization, the ongoing treatment back to "normal," and how everyone's reacting and coping in different ways. The best part is the family history revealed through such a crisis, the writing is honest and unvarnished. (  ) emigre | Oct 22, 2009 | An interesting recounting of a traumatic story through the eyes of a father. But as I finished it, I couldn't help but think that the most fascinating aspects the girl's struggle with a bipolar disorder likely occurred in the years following her diagnosis. I wish Greenberg had opted to pen a more streamlined version of the early struggles, then spent the second half of the book tracing his daughter's later challenges. (  ) brianinbuffalo | Sep 15, 2009 | I found this one hard to get into but found the subject very thought provoking and insightful (  ) landa102 | Aug 6, 2009 | I've started this book twice and haven't made it past 20-30 pages. I don't know if it's not for me, or if it's just not catching my attention when I start it. I'll give it another try at a later date. Lallybroch | Jul 28, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0739368834, Audio CD)Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg’s daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally’s sudden visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city’s most sweltering months. “I feel like I’m traveling and traveling with nowhere to go back to,” Sally says in a burst of lucidity while hurtling away toward some place her father could not dream of or imagine. Hurry Down Sunshine is the chronicle of that journey, and its effect on Sally and those closest to her–her mother and stepmother, her brother and grandmother, and, not least of all, the author himself.Among Greenberg’s unforgettable gallery of characters are an unconventional psychiatrist, an Orthodox Jewish patient, a manic Classics professor, a movie producer, and a landlord with literary aspirations. Unsentimental, nuanced, and deeply humane, Hurry Down Sunshine holds the listener in a mesmerizing state of suspension between the mundane and the transcendent. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:10 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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