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Night Falls Fast : Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison (2000, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375701478
ISBN-139780375701474
eBay Product ID (ePID)1741382
Product Key Features
Book TitleNight Falls Fast : Understanding Suicide
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicMood Disorders / Depression, Psychopathology / Depression, Suicide
IllustratorYes
GenreSelf-Help, Psychology
AuthorKay Redfield Jamison
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight11.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Jamison writes with authority, clarity and clinical reserve--. Powerful as her medicine is, her poetic accounting of this dark death is more affecting still."--Baltimore Sun "Jamison brings us face to face with the suicidal mind in a manner so intense and penetrating that, paradoxically, the immersion in despair she offers is a source of great pleasure."--The Washington Post Book World "This powerful book will change people's lives--and, doubtless, save a few."--Newsday "A profound and impassioned book--it will stand as the authoritative study of suicide for many years."--William Styron, author ofDarkness Visible "[Jamison] writes not only in fierce opposition to suicide, but also in passionate vindication of life."--The New York Times Book Review From the Trade Paperback edition., "Jamison writes with authority, clarity and clinical reserve--. Powerful as her medicine is, her poetic accounting of this dark death is more affecting still."-- Baltimore Sun "Jamison brings us face to face with the suicidal mind in a manner so intense and penetrating that, paradoxically, the immersion in despair she offers is a source of great pleasure."-- The Washington Post Book World "This powerful book will change people's lives--and, doubtless, save a few."-- Newsday "A profound and impassioned book--it will stand as the authoritative study of suicide for many years."--William Styron, author of Darkness Visible "[Jamison] writes not only in fierce opposition to suicide, but also in passionate vindication of life."-- The New York Times Book Review
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal362.2/8
SynopsisFrom the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind , comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five. An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive illnesses, Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to kill herself. Weaving together a historical and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays on individual suicides, she brings not only her remarkable compassion and literary skill but also all of her knowledge and research to bear on this devastating problem. This is a book that helps us to understand the suicidal mind, to recognize and come to the aid of those at risk, and to comprehend the profound effects on those left behind. It is critical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand this tragic epidemic., Critical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand the tragic epidemic of suicide--"a powerful book [that] will change people's lives--and, doubtless, save a few" ( Newsday ). The first major book in a quarter century on suicide--and its terrible pull on the young in particular-- Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five. From the author of the best-selling memoir, An Unquiet Mind --and an internationally acknowledged authority on depression--Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to kill herself. Weaving together a historical and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays on individual suicides, she brings not only her remarkable compassion and literary skill but also all of her knowledge and research to bear on this devastating problem. This is a book that helps us to understand the suicidal mind, to recognize and come to the aid of those at risk, and to comprehend the profound effects on those left behind.
LC Classification NumberRC569.J36 2000
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