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Hurry down sunshine : a father's story of love and madness
Title:
Hurry down sunshine : a father's story of love and madness
Author:
Greenberg, Michael, 1952-
ISBN:
9780307473547
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, 2009
Physical Description:
235 p. ; 21 cm
Abstract:
Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg's daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's most sweltering months.
Subject:
Greenberg, Sally, 1981-
Manic-depressive illness in adolescence -- Patients -- New York (State) -- New York
Parents of mentally ill children
Summary:
Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg's daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's most sweltering months.