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The best minds : a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions / Jonathan Rosen.
An acclaimed author investigates the forces that led his closest childhood friend, a paranoid schizophrenic with brilliant promise who defied the odds and graduated from Yale Law School, to kill the woman he loved, in this exploration of the ways in which we understand--and fail to understand--mental illness.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781594206573 :
- ISBN: 1594206570 :
- Physical Description: 562 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-539) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The suitable playmate -- The good earth -- Memory glass -- Strangers -- American pie -- Freedom summer -- Message in a bottle -- Misreading -- The shadow knows -- Revolving door -- Going sane -- Stories -- Choosing -- The break -- Entanglement -- Locked ward -- Making illness a weapon -- Underclass -- Halfway -- Brains -- Mentors -- Precedent -- Secrets -- The sympathetic light of sickness -- Happy idiot -- Postdoc -- Thoughtful enabling -- Career killer -- Role model -- Twice born -- Creativity, inc. -- Michael called Kevin -- Shamans -- Equal opportunity -- The backward journey -- The two Adams -- Personal emergency -- Going back -- The fatal funnel -- Cain and Abel -- The eternal optimist -- Endings. |
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| Subject: | Laudor, Michael. Schizophrenics > United States > Biography. Rosen, Jonathan, 1963- > Friends and associates. Male friendship > United States. New York (State) > Biography. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Orford Libraries.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Orford Social Library | 616.89 | 34190000125665 | New items | Available | - |
