Publication date: 2004-05
Dewey code: 362.1969940092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.24
Review Recovery from Cancer: The Remarkable Story of One Woman's Struggle with Cancer and What She Did to Beat the Odds / Square One Publishers:
Publication date: 2007-07-30
Dewey code: 921
RRP: £11.72
Price: £4.79
Review Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder / Ginee Seo Books:
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Ed
Publication date: 1996-03-01
Dewey code: 788.73165092
RRP: £17.50
Price: £7.43
Review Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker / Da Capo Press Inc:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-09-15
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.33
Review Behind the Veil: A Nurses Arabian Nightmare / Eye Books:
Authors
- Master Sheng-Yen
- Master Chan Sheng Yen
Dewey code: 294.3297092
RRP: £16.25
Price: £9.97
Review Footprints in the Snow: The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk / Doubleday Books:
Authors
- Michael Marland
- Anne Frank
- Christopher Martin
Publication date: 1989-03-20
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £7.25
Price: £4.25
Review Diary of Anne Frank (New Longman Literature 14-18) / Longman:
Publication date: 2008-09-16
Dewey code: 305.892405672092
RRP: £16.90
Price: £10.78
Review My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq / Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2003-10
Dewey code: 780
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.71
Review Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story / Da Capo Press Inc:
Publication date: 1997-10-15
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £16.99
Price: £23.98
Review Violent Delights / Blake Publishing:
Publication date: 2007-02-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.95
Review Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child / Harper Element:
Publication date: 1993-01-01
Dewey code: 979.86
RRP: £14.95
Price: £5.16
Review Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River / Alaska Northwest Books:
Edition: 1st Back Bay Ed
Publication date: 1995-12-07
Dewey code: 818.5409
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.92
Review A Drinking Life / Little, Brown:
Publication date: 1993-06
Dewey code: 616.890092
Price: £11.07
Review Girl, Interrupted / Turtle Bay Books: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: 1990-02-19
Dewey code: 921
Price: £4.99
Review The Grass Arena: An Autobiography / Faber and Faber:
Publication date: 2007-03-01
Dewey code: 133
RRP: £9.95
Price: £1.00
Review Angel in Disguise? / The Collins Press:
Authors
- James Mollison
- Rainbow Nelson
Dewey code: 364.177
RRP: £29.95
Price: £14.70
Review The Memory of Pablo Escobar / Chris Boot:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2003-02-06
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.99
Review Alan Rickman: The Unauthorised Biography / Virgin Books:
Authors
- George Dawson
- Richard Glaubman
Publication date: 2001-06
Dewey code: 976.4192
RRP: £9.77
Price: £4.88
Review Life is So Good / Penguin Books:
Publication date: 2007-07-05
Dewey code: 916.0431
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.15
Review Hashish: A Smuggler's Tale (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Publication date: 2007-05-03
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.94
Review Wasted / Sphere:
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