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Black humor alternates with almost unbearable pathos in National Public Radio journalist Jacki Lyden's memoir of her mother's manic-depressive episodes. Dreadful though those periodic bouts of madness were, they also gave an unhappy housewife a sense of power and freedom that Lyden couldn't help but admire. "You could say that the life of my imagination began with my mother's visions," she writes, making connections between her profession of "find[ing] things out in places of great secrets" and her struggle to deal with her mother's illness. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Donning a toga fashioned from bed sheets and sporting hieroglyphs drawn with eyeliner on her arms, the delusional Dolores regally proclaims that as the Queen of Sheba, she is bequeathing Mesopotamia to the author, her 12-year-old daughter. As Lyden states with simple eloquence, "everything happened to us after that." Written with astonishing vividness, this harrowing yet fascinating memoir recounts the chaotic decades that follow, as Dolores's bewildering mania inspires her to recast herself variously as the daughter of a Mafia chieftain, a department store heiress, a racehorse owner, the CEO of a catering empire, and the lover of a brewery executive she's never actually met. Improperly diagnosed, and therefore lacking appropriate treatment, Dolores's manic-depressive illness dominates the lives of her family, until a reluctant legal system finally allows the author and her sisters to commit her for what proves to be successful treatment with lithium. This extraordinary tale of survival is narrated with the energy and confidence called for by the vigorous prose and the poise one would expect from award-winning radio journalist Lyden. Enthusiastically recommended for public libraries.?Linda Bredengerd, Hanley Lib., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Bradford, PA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Black humor alternates with almost unbearable pathos in National Public Radio journalist Jacki Lyden's memoir of her mother's manic-depressive episodes. Dreadful though those periodic bouts of madness were, they also gave an unhappy housewife a sense of power and freedom that Lyden couldn't help but admire. "You could say that the life of my imagination began with my mother's visions," she writes, making connections between her profession of "find[ing] things out in places of great secrets" and her struggle to deal with her mother's illness. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Donning a toga fashioned from bed sheets and sporting hieroglyphs drawn with eyeliner on her arms, the delusional Dolores regally proclaims that as the Queen of Sheba, she is bequeathing Mesopotamia to the author, her 12-year-old daughter. As Lyden states with simple eloquence, "everything happened to us after that." Written with astonishing vividness, this harrowing yet fascinating memoir recounts the chaotic decades that follow, as Dolores's bewildering mania inspires her to recast herself variously as the daughter of a Mafia chieftain, a department store heiress, a racehorse owner, the CEO of a catering empire, and the lover of a brewery executive she's never actually met. Improperly diagnosed, and therefore lacking appropriate treatment, Dolores's manic-depressive illness dominates the lives of her family, until a reluctant legal system finally allows the author and her sisters to commit her for what proves to be successful treatment with lithium. This extraordinary tale of survival is narrated with the energy and confidence called for by the vigorous prose and the poise one would expect from award-winning radio journalist Lyden. Enthusiastically recommended for public libraries.?Linda Bredengerd, Hanley Lib., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Bradford, PA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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