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Rescuing Patty Hearst (MEMORIES FROM A DECADE GONE MAD) Print E-mail
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Author: Virginia Holman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, March 6, 2003.

"Rescuing Patty Hearst [is an] unforgettable memoir. . . . Holman's gutsy prose bespeaks her survivor's backbone and hindsight." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Readers will find themselves releasing their breath only at the end of the short, remarkably taut chapters. No wonder the portion published last year in DoubleTake won a Pushcart Prize." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Virginia Holman's mother suffers from schizophrenia. Her mind is not beautiful. It was 1975, one year after the Patty Hearst kidnapping fiasco and the Watergate scandal, when Holman's mother experienced her first psychotic episode. She spirited Holman and her young sister to a family cottage in a remote location on the Virginia Peninsula.

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In The Shadow Of Madness, A Memoir Print E-mail
Written by Thelma I. Hayes   

Author: Dolores Brandon
Publisher: by SKY BLUE PRESS, Troy, MI
www.skybluepress.com

(Reviewer: Thelma I. Hayes was founding President of National Alliance for the Mentally Ill ( NAMI), North Coastal San Diego County, California. She now serves as advocacy chair.)?

In the Shadow of Madness, A Memoir by Dolores Brandon, has a literary quality rare in books and articles written about mental illness' depression, bipolar or manic depressive illness, schizophrenia, panic disorder, among them.

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Rex's Resource List Print E-mail
Written by Rex Dickens   

Offspring and Sibling Resources

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For those interested in reading about the experience of other offspring and siblings, I am presenting a partial listing of books that I have found of interest.

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Daddys Girls Print E-mail
Written by Terry Mathews   

Author: Suzanne Gold
Reviwer: Terry Mathews Suzanne Gold is the author of "Daddy's Girls," a bittersweet novel of a family on the verge of mental illness, struggling to love one another. "The best book I've read since 'The Hours' by Michael Cunningham" (Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 2000) --Terry Mathews, BookBrowser.com, Midwest Book Review

Read Chapter One free at http://www.suzannegold.com.

 
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