Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1979-04-26
RRP: £7.99
Price: £7.99
Review A Place Apart / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 2004-03-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.19
Review Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, the / Holloway House Publishing Company:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-08-31
Dewey code: 973.04960730092
Price: £14.95
Review Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance / Three Rivers Press (CA):
Publication date: 2006-08-22
Dewey code: 283.092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.04
Review Crossing Myself: A Story of Spiritual Rebirth / NavPress Publishing Group:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2007-09-27
Dewey code: 359.960941
RRP: £18.99
Price: £9.40
Review Commando / Century:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-11-04
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.99
Review Pitching My Tent: On Marriage, Motherhood, Friendship, and Other Leaps of Faith / Pan Books:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2004-05-13
Dewey code: 796.75092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.60
Review Joey Dunlop: His Authorised Biography / J H Haynes & Co Ltd:
Edition: Reprinted Ed
Publication date: 1995-06-15
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.30
Review To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood / Brandon:
Authors
- Benedicte Newland
- Pascale Smets
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review And God Created the Au Pair: Picture the Perfect Family, Now Forget It and Read This! / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1994-06
Dewey code: 616.890092
Price: £7.23
Review Girl, Interrupted / Vintage Books USA:Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted is the autobiographical story of the author's time in a psychiatric award in 1967. Sylvia Plath was a patient at the same hospital in the early 1950s so inevitably comparisons have been made between Plath's The Bell Jar and Kaysen's novel-both recounting a young woman's descent into insanity. This, however, is where the similarities end-The Bell Jar is a haunting and lyrical book; Girl, Interrupted is a more hard-edged, documentary-style narrative. It has none of the beauty and poetry of Plath's prose and is more akin to Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation , an up-to-date memoir of a young girl's struggle with depression and drugs. Both these books offer a brutal and stark image of a life of mental illness. Kaysen's account goes further and questions the standard notions of sanity and insanity. Her plausible voice allows the reader to accept a world where time is distorted, chaos reigns and questions are left unanswered, capturing perfectly the sense of helplessness and frustration felt by these women. The book's gritty realism is also heightened by copies of the author's original medical reports lodged between the chapters. However, it is her penetrating insights into those around her, from those cared for to the caretakers, that make "Girl, Interrupted" so potent. Lacing her narrative with a hard-edged, sardonic sting, she introduces us to a cast of characters from the outrageous Lisa to the chicken-hoarding Daisy to the Martian's girlfriend: Daisy was a seasonal event. [+]She came before Thanksgiving and stayed through Christmas every year. "Would anyone like to share?" the head nurse asked. "Me! Me! Somebody who was a Martian's girlfriend and also had a little penis of her own, which she was eager to show off, raised a hand; nobody wanted to share with her. "Girl, Interrupted" is a credible and creditable chronicle of the lives of women in the 1960s who, through the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of society, were contained and monitored for not fitting into the "norm", the mainstream. Nicola Perry.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-01-05
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.88
Review Smashed: Growing Up a Drunk Girl / Ebury Press:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-07-01
Dewey code: 306.76620973
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.70
Review Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star / Kensington Publishing:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2003-01-01
Dewey code: 362.1968340093
RRP: £11.95
Price: £6.96
Review Life on Cripple Creek: Essays on Living with Multiple Sclerosis / Demos:
Publication date: 2008-04-03
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.85
Review Looking Up: A Humorous and Unflinching Account of Learning to Live Again with Sudden Disability / Virgin Books:
Publication date: 2004-02-02
Dewey code: 362
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.07
Review My Punished Mind: A Memoir of Psychosis / iUniverse.com:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-07-11
Dewey code: 323.092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.29
Review Martin Luther King Jr. (Routledge Historical Biographies) / Routledge:
Publication date: 2004-01-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.00
Review Sickened / Century:
Authors
- Daniel O'Donnell; Michael McDonagh
Dewey code: 914.1504824
RRP: £20.00
Price: £10.63
Review Daniel O'Donnell's Ireland: Songs and Scenes from My Homeland / Virgin Books:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-10-09
Dewey code: 306.7092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £4.99
Review My Secret Life: Early Years Pt. 1: The Sex Diaries of a Victorian Gentleman: Early Years Pt. 1 / Nonsuch Publishing:
Publication date: 2007-12-26
Dewey code: 362.1963980092
RRP: £8.91
Price: £3.83
Review Confessions of a Carb Queen / Rodale Press:
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