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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780316315142
- Book Title
- Gorilla and the Bird : a Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Medical
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood, General, Mental Health, Psychopathology / Bipolar Disorder
- Item Weight
- 17 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316315141
ISBN-13
9780316315142
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234946105
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gorilla and the Bird : a Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood, General, Mental Health, Psychopathology / Bipolar Disorder
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Medical
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-936279
Reviews
"Gorilla and the Bird will make you laugh, cry, and wonder what would happen if we were all brave enough to tell the stories of our relationships with love and madness. I needed this book."-- KieseLaymon, author of How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others inAmerica, "McDermott brings a vivid and unsettling degreeof intimacy to his descriptions of mania's onset. . . His work as a public defender grows out ofa deep sense of empathy for the stigmatized and marginalized that's evident onevery page. He uses that empathy to construct a deeply compassionate portraitof his mother - a resilient woman whose love helps ground him in the real, evenin moments when his reality is at its most friable."-- NPR.org, "A captivating and witty memoir about a young lawyer's gut-wrenching struggle with mental illness and the fierce, protective love of his remarkable mother and dedicated friends, Zack McDermott's Gorilla and the Bird is not only a deeply powerful reminder of our own vulnerability, but a truly inspirational testament to the strength of the human spirit. This book makes accessible experiences that some may wish to ignore but that urgently require our attention, acceptance and empathy."-- ElizabethFord, M.D., author of Sometimes Amazing Things Happen, "Glorious...one of the best memoirs I've read in years. The sheer, sharp pleasure of McDermott's prose is reason enough to pick it up...McDermott gives us a flawed, funny, self-aware narrator with a powerful command of his own voice; he can move from barely controlled hilarity to the brink of rage to aching tenderness in a single breath. While he sustains his pell-mell pace from the first page to the last, he also covers an enormous amount of territory, carrying the reader from a brutally funny description of childhood in the heart of the Midwest to an unflinching exploration of the racism embedded in the American justice system. At the center of Gorilla and the Bird is a beautiful and profoundly affecting portrait of the Bird, McDermott's mother - a woman as real, raw, and obstinate in her love for the Gorilla [McDermott] as he is in his love for her...With deceptive effortlessness, this book carries the reader through both the peculiar twists and turns of the bipolar mind, and over some complex, shifting terrain in ethics and American life."-- New York Times Book Review, "A remarkably written (and lived) memoir about hard beginnings,bad genes, delusions of grandeur, and epic mother love...holds us rapt."-- Huffington Post, "A poignant memoir...[McDermott's] book asks us todestigmatize mental illness by familiarizing us intimately with the issue."-- Los Angeles Review of Books, "[A] poignant and powerful debut...an importantresource for anyone impacted by the scope of bipolar disorder, as well as thosewho want to learn more about it."-- The Rumpus, "A tale of madness, self-destruction, and the stalwartpresence of a family...McDermott's memoir is decidedly offbeat, unfoldinglike a country song. There's the law, some good jokes, substance abuse, andlove lost and found, but there's also a keenly felt sense of justice for thepeople who can't catch a break in this world, 'the dregs, the castoffs,the addicts'...If the Joads were tanked up on Bud Light and Haldoland Steinbeck were under Hunter S. Thompson's influence, this might be theresult-rueful, funny, and utterly authentic."-- Kirkus Reviews, "A funny, finely observed andsurprisingly touching depiction of what it feels like to lose your mind. Byallowing us to witness his lowest and most delusional moments, and the slow andtentative process of returning to the world, Zack McDermott provides a grippingportrait of a very real human battle too often ignored and misunderstood. I ambetter for reading this book."-- Sarah Hepola, NewYork Times bestselling author of Blackout, "A startlingly moving memoir of mother and son, structural injustice and inflammable mental illness. Gorilla and the Bird is as piss-cuttin' a pieta as anyone has any right to hope for. And Zack McDermott -- guy's a fleet, funny, unsentimental storyteller who manages that rare thing: He allows a damaged soul be found."-- Kent Russell, author of I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a TimidSon, "Zack McDermott's portrait of a mind under assault from bi-polar illness is both fascinating and heart-breaking to observe, and he takes us into his experience with riveting intensity. But McDermott's real achievement is capturing the moving determination and steadfast love of the mother who saves him, the remarkable Bird who breaks the loneliness, quiets the fear and gives him a home worth returning to. I was so moved by this book and these people."_ George Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Bettyville, "Zack McDermott's portrait of a mind under assault from bi-polar illness is both fascinating and heart-breaking to observe, and he takes us into his experience with riveting intensity. But McDermott's real achievement is capturing the moving determination and steadfast love of the mother who saves him, the remarkable Bird who breaks the loneliness, quiets the fear and gives him a home worth returning to. I was so moved by this book and these people."-- George Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Bettyville
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
616.89/50092 B
Synopsis
"Glorious...one of the best memoirs I've read in years...a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice, and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita. [McDermott] can move from barely controlled hilarity to the brink of rage to aching tenderness in a single breath." -- Marya Hornbacher, New York Times Book Review Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, Truman Show-style, as part of an audition for a TV pilot. Every passerby was an actor; every car would magically stop for him; everything he saw was a cue from "The Producer" to help inspire the performance of a lifetime. After a manic spree around Manhattan, Zack, who is bipolar, was arrested on a subway platform and admitted to Bellevue Hospital. So begins the story of Zack's freefall into psychosis and his desperate, poignant, often hilarious struggle to claw his way back to sanity. It's a journey that will take him from New York City back to his Kansas roots and to the one person who might be able to save him, his tough, big-hearted Midwestern mother, nicknamed the Bird, whose fierce and steadfast love is the light in Zack's dark world. Before his odyssey is over, Zack will be tackled by guards in mental wards, run naked through cornfields, receive secret messages from the TV, befriend a former Navy Seal and his talking stuffed monkey, and see the Virgin Mary in the whorls of his own back hair. But with the Bird's help, he just might have a shot at pulling through, starting over, and maybe even meeting a partner who can love him back, bipolar and all. Introducing an electrifying new voice, Gorilla and the Bird is a raw and unforgettable account of a young man's unraveling and the relationship that saves him., *Soon to be an HBO limited series* "Glorious...one of the best memoirs I've read in years... a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice, and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita. McDermott] can move from barely controlled hilarity to the brink of rage to aching tenderness in a single breath." --Marya Hornbacher, New York Times Book Review Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, Truman Show- style, as part of an audition for a TV pilot. Every passerby was an actor; every car would magically stop for him; everything he saw was a cue from "The Producer" to help inspire the performance of a lifetime. After a manic spree around Manhattan, Zack, who is bipolar, was arrested on a subway platform and admitted to Bellevue Hospital. So begins the story of Zack's freefall into psychosis and his desperate, poignant, often hilarious struggle to claw his way back to sanity. It's a journey that will take him from New York City back to his Kansas roots and to the one person who might be able to save him, his tough, big-hearted Midwestern mother, nicknamed the Bird, whose fierce and steadfast love is the light in Zack's dark world. Before his odyssey is over, Zack will be tackled by guards in mental wards, run naked through cornfields, receive secret messages from the TV, befriend a former Navy Seal and his talking stuffed monkey, and see the Virgin Mary in the whorls of his own back hair. But with the Bird's help, he just might have a shot at pulling through, starting over, and maybe even meeting a partner who can love him back, bipolar and all. Introducing an electrifying new voice, GORILLA AND THE BIRD is a raw and unforgettable account of a young man's unraveling and the relationship that saves him.
LC Classification Number
RC516.M39 2017
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