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Amazon Sales Rank: 1120
Publication Date: 2008-09-09
Release Date: 2008-09-09
Publisher: Other Press
ISBN: 1590511913
Type: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 240
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HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE TELLS THE STORY OF THE extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg’s daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally’s 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 most sweltering months. “I feel like I’m traveling and traveling with nowhere to go back to,” Sally says in a burst of lucidity while hurtling away toward some place her father could not dream of or imagine. Hurry Down Sunshine is the chronicle of that journey, and its effect on Sally and those closest to her–her brother and grandmother, her mother and stepmother, and, not least of all, the author himself. Among Greenberg’s unforgettable gallery of characters are an unconventional psychiatrist, an Orthodox Jewish patient, a manic Classics professor, a movie producer, and a landlord with literary dreams. Unsentimental, nuanced, and deeply humane, Hurry Down Sunshine holds the reader in a mesmerizing state of suspension between the mundane and the transcendent.
“The psychotic break of his fifteen-year-old daughter is the grit around which Michael Greenberg forms the pearl that is Hurry Down Sunshine. It is a brilliant, taut, entirely original study of a suffering child and a family and marriage under siege. I know of no other book about madness whose claim to scientific knowledge is so modest and whose artistic achievement is so great.” – Janet Malcolm, author of The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes and The Journalist and the Murderer
“One of the most gripping and disturbingly honest books I have ever read. The courage Michael Greenberg shows in narrating the story of his adolescent daughter’s descent into psychosis is matched by his acute understanding of how alone each of us, sane or manic, is in our processing of reality and our attempts to get others to appreciate what seems important to us. This is a remarkable memoir.” – Phillip Lopate, author of Two Marriages and Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan
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Review: 2009-01-01
Sunshine's always there.
I don't have the slimmest idea of what a bipolar disorder can be. So, when I picked up "Hurry Down Sunshine", I wasn't anticipating too much. I even doubted whether I would be interested enough to finish reading this book.
I did finish the book.
Greenberg wrote this book with such a frank, sincere and delicate style that I became immediately engrossed after turning over the first page.
Sally's schizophrenia may haunt her for the rest of her life. But Hurry Down Sunshine shows the reader what a loving and caring family she enjoys. Courage and dedication are just the sunshine for anybody suffering from psychosis.
Good luck to Sally, and her great father, Greenberg.
Review: 2008-12-29
Reality
This is an excellent narrative account of the author walking alongside his 15 year old daughter as she has her initial manic psychotic episode and proceeds through the mental health system. It lends perspective to those who may have heard of bipolar or manic-depressive illness but don't really know how it fleshes out. I imagine it would provide knowledge and comfort to families suddenly finding themselves helping a loved one under similar circumstances. Greenberg clearly and accurately portrays his experience how it played out chronologically, including interactions and relationships with other family members. Highly recommended!
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