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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2008-01-29
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN
- 9780060521677
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060521678
ISBN-13
9780060521677
eBay Product ID (ePID)
61182870
Product Key Features
Book Title
In My Blood : Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Mood Disorders / Depression, Royalty, General, Mental Health, Historical, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
14.2 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Articulate, insightful.and substantial.Mr. Sedgwick provides a clear, incisive view of a complicated family., The individual stories are fascinating…With a writer's eye for detail, Sedgwick provides an unflinchingly honest chronicle of a...familial odyssey., Gorgeous...fascinating...it's John Sedgwick's struggles with his own health and identity that give this book its literary power., "Ingenious...a lurid inversion of the American Dream...it...makes a larger point about the self protective mechanisms of American democracy." -- Wall Street Journal "Articulate, insightful...and substantial...Mr. Sedgwick provides a clear, incisive view of a complicated family." -- Janet Maslin, New York Times "Gorgeous...fascinating...it's John Sedgwick's struggles with his own health and identity that give this book its literary power." -- USA Today "Compelling family biography...These people are...like characters in a very good novel...[Sedgwick] writes with great confidence." -- Linda Wertheimer, NPR's Weekend Edition "Engrossing, affecting, and enlightening...A grand, candid, and sensitive family memoir...unique in its perspective on American history." -- Donna Seaman, Chicago Tribune "A gift...The Sedgwick story engages us with the powers and insights of a great novel." -- Boston Globe "The combination of privilege and affliction is seductive." -- Daily News "This reading promises to be an excellent portrait, not just of madness, but of one of the major American families." -- Bostonist "Sedgwick has a keen eye for detail...The finely honed prose glides along effortlessly." -- Publishers Weekly "The individual stories are fascinating...With a writer's eye for detail, Sedgwick provides an unflinchingly honest chronicle of a...familial odyssey." -- Booklist "[Sedgwick] offers up a very personal look at his family history." -- Pages "Astute." -- New York Times, Compelling family biography.These people are...like characters in a very good novel...[Sedgwick] writes with great confidence., Compelling family biography…These people are...like characters in a very good novel...[Sedgwick] writes with great confidence., Ingenious...a lurid inversion of the American Dream...it...makes a larger point about the self protective mechanisms of American democracy., Articulate, insightful…and substantial…Mr. Sedgwick provides a clear, incisive view of a complicated family., Compelling family biography...These people are...like characters in a very good novel...[Sedgwick] writes with great confidence., Engrossing, affecting, and enlightening...A grand, candid, and sensitive family memoir...unique in its perspective on American history., Articulate, insightful...and substantial...Mr. Sedgwick provides a clear, incisive view of a complicated family., The individual stories are fascinating...With a writer's eye for detail, Sedgwick provides an unflinchingly honest chronicle of a...familial odyssey., Ingenious.a lurid inversion of the American Dream...it...makes a larger point about the self protective mechanisms of American democracy., Ingenious…a lurid inversion of the American Dream...it...makes a larger point about the self protective mechanisms of American democracy., This reading promises to be an excellent portrait, not just of madness, but of one of the major American families.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
616.85/270092
Synopsis
While working on his second novel, John Sedgwick spiraled into a depression so profound that it very nearly resulted in suicide. An author acclaimed for his intimate literary excursions into the rarified, moneyed enclave of Brahmin Boston, he decided to search for the roots of his malaise in the history of his own storied family-one of America's oldest and most notable. Following a bloodline that travels from Theodore Sedgwick, compatriot of George Washington and John Adams, to Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol's tragic muse, John Sedgwick's very personal journey of self-discovery became something far greater: a spellbinding study of the evolution of an extraordinary American family., While working on his second novel, John Sedgwick spiraled into a depression so profound that it very nearly resulted in suicide. An author acclaimed for his intimate literary excursions into the rarified, moneyed enclave of Brahmin Boston, he decided to search for the roots of his malaise in the history of his own storied family--one of America's oldest and most notable. Following a bloodline that travels from Theodore Sedgwick, compatriot of George Washington and John Adams, to Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol's tragic muse, John Sedgwick's very personal journey of self-discovery became something far greater: a spellbinding study of the evolution of an extraordinary American family.
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