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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
ISBN-10
140006869X
ISBN-13
9781400068692
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038847950
Product Key Features
Book Title
Long Journey Home : a Memoir
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, Personal Memoirs, General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Literary Criticism, Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
21.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-029327
Dewey Edition
22
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Advanced Praise for The Long Journey Home “Margaret Robison has written, with a simple beauty and elegance that belie a powerful and unflinching honesty, about surviving mental illness, abuse, and the constrictions of womanhood in an era when all three were sorely misunderstood. A striking memoir.� -Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, author of Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression “After decades of feeling silenced, like so many women of the 1950s, Margaret Robison reclaims her own story. The Long Journey Home is a moving testament to the power of language in confronting the frightening, inchoate experience of madness. But it is also a wistful, richly textured evocation of rural Southern life amidst a cascade of characters both distressing and unforgettable. Robison’s fortitude, candor, and lack of rancor offer a refreshing alternative to many memoirs.� -Gail A. Hornstein, author of Agnes’s Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meaning of Madness “This is a haunting book, laced with desperation and urgency. The author’s sorely tested faith in the power of writing to heal the soul is an inspiration to any writer. And for memoirists such as myself, she raises the large question of who has the right to tell our stories. For fans of Augusten Burroughs’s Running With Scissors, the mother’s account of her life is an invitation to enter the labyrinthine world of Rashomon.� -Kathleen Norris, author of Dakota: A Spiritual Geography and The Cloister Walk, Advanced Praise for The Long Journey Home "Margaret Robison has written, with a simple beauty and elegance that belie a powerful and unflinching honesty, about surviving mental illness, abuse, and the constrictions of womanhood in an era when all three were sorely misunderstood. A striking memoir." -Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, author of Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression "After decades of feeling silenced, like so many women of the 1950s, Margaret Robison reclaims her own story. The Long Journey Home is a moving testament to the power of language in confronting the frightening, inchoate experience of madness. But it is also a wistful, richly textured evocation of rural Southern life amidst a cascade of characters both distressing and unforgettable. Robison's fortitude, candor, and lack of rancor offer a refreshing alternative to many memoirs." -Gail A. Hornstein, author of Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meaning of Madness "This is a haunting book, laced with desperation and urgency. The author's sorely tested faith in the power of writing to heal the soul is an inspiration to any writer. And for memoirists such as myself, she raises the large question of who has the right to tell our stories. For fans of Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors, the mother's account of her life is an invitation to enter the labyrinthine world of Rashomon." -Kathleen Norris, author of Dakota: A Spiritual Geography and The Cloister Walk, "After decades of feeling silenced, like so many women of the 1950s, Margaret Robison reclaims her own story. The Long Journey Home is a moving testament to the power of language in confronting the frightening, inchoate experience of madness. But it is also a wistful, richly textured evocation of rural Southern life amidst a cascade of characters both distressing and unforgettable. Robison's fortitude, candor, and lack of rancor offer a refreshing alternative to many memoirs." -Gail A. Hornstein, author of Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meaning of Madness "This is a haunting book, laced with desperation and urgency. The author's sorely tested faith in the power of writing to heal the soul is an inspiration to any writer. And for memoirists such as myself, she raises the large question of who has the right to tell our stories. For fans of Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors, the mother's account of her life is an invitation to enter the labyrinthine world of Rashomon." -Kathleen Norris, author of Dakota: A Spiritual Geography and The Cloister Walk
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Dewey Decimal
975.8/043092 B
Synopsis
The mother of the bestselling memoirists Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison finally tells her own heartbreaking story of her Southern Gothic childhood, tormented marriage, motherhood, mental breakdown, and journey back to sanity and contentment, in luminous, evocative prose., First introduced to the world in her sons' now-classic memoirs--Augusten Burroughs's Running with Scissors and John Elder Robison's Look Me in the Eye --Margaret Robison now tells her own haunting and lyrical story. A poet and teacher by profession, Robison describes her Southern Gothic childhood, her marriage to a handsome, brilliant man who became a split-personality alcoholic and abusive husband, the challenges she faced raising two children while having psychotic breakdowns of her own, and her struggle to regain her sanity. Robison grew up in southern Georgia, where the façade of 1950s propriety masked all sorts of demons, including alcoholism, misogyny, repressed homosexuality, and suicide. She met her husband, John Robison, in college, and together they moved up north, where John embarked upon a successful academic career and Margaret brought up the children and worked on her art and poetry. Yet her husband's alcoholism and her collapse into psychosis, and the eventual disintegration of their marriage, took a tremendous toll on their family: Her older son, John Elder, moved out of the house when he was a teenager, and her younger son, Chris (who later renamed himself Augusten), never completed high school. When Margaret met Dr. Rodolph Turcotte, the therapist who was treating her husband, she felt understood for the first time and quickly fell under his idiosyncratic and, eventually, harmful influence. Robison writes movingly and honestly about her mental illness, her shortcomings as a parent, her difficult marriage, her traumatic relationship with Dr. Turcotte, and her two now-famous children, Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison, who have each written bestselling memoirs about their family. She also writes inspiringly about her hard-earned journey to sanity and clarity. An astonishing and enduring story, The Long Journey Home is a remarkable and ultimately uplifting account of a complicated, afflicted twentieth-century family.
LC Classification Number
CT275.R7435A3 2011
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