(Baca) Epub Hurry Down Sunshine: A Father's Story of Love and
Madness
By Michael Greenberg
This international bestseller is an extraordinary family story and an
exceptionally powerful memoir about coping withbipolar disorder, now with a
new afterword for the ten-year anniversary edition. Michael Greenberg recounts
in vivid detail the remarkable summer when, at the age of fifteen, his 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 sweltering summer. It is
a tale of a family broken open, then painstakingly, movingly stitched together
again.Greenberg's unforgettable cast of characters includes 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 is essential reading in the literature of
affliction with such classics asGirl, Interrupted and An
