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Thirty Rooms to Hide In : Insanity, Addiction, and Rock 'n' Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic by Luke Longstreet Sullivan (2014, Trade Paperback)

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When their mother decides to leave the Millstone and move the family across town, the Sullivan boys are able to find solace in each other and in rock &;n&; roll.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press

ISBN-100816679711

ISBN-139780816679713

eBay Product ID (ePID)143605895

Product Key Features

Book TitleThirty Rooms to Hide in : Insanity, Addiction, and Rock 'N' Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPersonal Memoirs, General, Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, Medical, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi)

Publication Year2014

IllustratorYes

GenreSelf-Help, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorLuke Longstreet Sullivan

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight16.9 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width6.6 in

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LCCN2012-017395

ReviewsIf you're looking for proof that the Great American Family Drama is alive and kicking, here it is. Luke Longstreet Sullivan's heart wrenching, poignant, and often hilarious family history is laid bare like a shattered bottle of bourbon. I wish more memoirs took the chances this one does. And reached such heights. This is a bravura work. --Peter Geye, author of Safe from the Sea

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal362.292092 B

Table Of ContentContents Funeral The Millstone Skeletons in the Closet Bone Doctors Grandma Rock Sentences Everyone to Hell Little Christians, All in a Row Little Monsters in Every Room Memory: Throwing Up A Library of Her OwnForts, Death, and BedtimeCold WarFive O'clock Shadow Head X-Ray: Roger in 1957 Shit Gathers in General Area of FanCyclops and the Fallout Shelter Memory: Dad Helps with Homework Hidden Books, Hidden LettersEleven Twenty-twoFun at the Foot of the VolcanoRat HelicoptersCause of Death: UnknownThe Pagans"Spats with the Wife" Memory: I Am "Suave Ghost"The Alcoholic's Guide to Ruining Evenings Snowballs Somehow Made in Hell Memory: I Am "Little Brother Man" Leaving the Millstone"We've Always Lived in This Castle"Haunted HouseCeiling Tiles over a Psychiatrist's Couch Memory: I Am "Quiet Man" Things That Were Scarier Than DadBaba Yaga Memory: I Am the Fifth Beatle Hiding in the Bathroom from BulletsHiding in the Tower Library Memory: I Am the Incredible Hulk Memory: I Am "Lonely Guy" Pagan RitesEye of the HurricaneNo Help from GodCase #34233 Daydream: I Am "the Bullshit Police" "Our Drummer Committed Suicide"One Last Good ChristmasTiny Details in Family Pictures Daydream: I Save DadGoodnight, Irene Whiteout/Blackout Meltdown in West Palm Beach "Do I Owe You Any Money?" The Famous Final Scene Zee Tortured Arteest Phone Calls from the Dead The Mortal Coil Room 50 The Irish Flu Sunday, July 3, 1966 Pagans in the Temple One Last Look Sunlight Streams through a High Window I Believe in God Briefly The Big Bad WorldTake a Sad Song and Make It BetterThis Very Room"And Every Winter Change to Spring" Epilogue AcknowledgmentsAuthor's Note

SynopsisAuthor Luke Longstreet Sullivan has a simple way of describing his new memoir: "It's like The Shining . . . only funnier." Thirty Rooms to Hide In tells the astonishing story of Sullivan's father and his descent from one of the world's top orthopedic surgeons at the Mayo Clinic to a man who is increasingly abusive, alcoholic, and insane, ultimately dying alone on the floor of a Georgia motel room. For his wife and six sons, the years prior to his death were characterized by turmoil, anger, and family dysfunction; but somehow they were also a time of real happiness for Sullivan and his brothers, full of dark humor and much laughter. Through the 1950s and 1960s, the six brothers had a wildly fun and thoroughly dysfunctional childhood living in a forbidding thirty-room mansion, known as the Millstone, on the outskirts of Rochester, Minnesota. The many rooms of the immense home, as well as their mother's loving protection, allowed the Sullivan brothers to grow up as normal, mischievous boys. Against a backdrop of the times--the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, fallout shelters, JFK's assassination, and the Beatles--the cracks in their home life and their father's psyche continue to widen. When their mother decides to leave the Millstone and move the family across town, the Sullivan boys are able to find solace in each other and in rock 'n' roll. As Thirty Rooms to Hide In follows the story of the Sullivan family--at times grim, at others poignant--a wonderful, dark humor lifts the narrative. Tragic, funny, and powerfully evocative of the 1950s and 1960s, Thirty Rooms to Hide In is a tale of public success and private dysfunction, personal and familial resilience, and the strange power of humor to give refuge when it is needed most, even if it can't always provide the answers., Luke Longstreet Sullivan tells the astonishing story of his father's descent from a top surgeon at Mayo Clinic to a man who is increasingly abusive, alcoholic, and insane. The years prior to his death were characterized by turmoil, anger, and family dysfunction, but somehow also real happiness for Sullivan and his five brothers, full of dark humor and much laughter.

LC Classification NumberRD727.S85 2012