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Lily Pond
Mike Barnes
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Description for Lily Pond
Paperback. A memoir that explores the author's thirty-plus years of living with bipolar disorder. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFJB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 242.
A memoir that chronicles unflinchingly the destructiveness of bipolar disorder - an illness that infiltrates thinking, feeling and acting in ways that change the very fabric of identity, of the life story one is telling oneself; however, The Lily Pond is equally searching in its exploration of the psyche's resources in healing and reknitting that story.
A memoir that chronicles unflinchingly the destructiveness of bipolar disorder - an illness that infiltrates thinking, feeling and acting in ways that change the very fabric of identity, of the life story one is telling oneself; however, The Lily Pond is equally searching in its exploration of the psyche's resources in healing and reknitting that story.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781897231487
SKU
V9781897231487
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99-15
About Mike Barnes
Mike Barnes: Mike Barnes is the author of Calm Jazz Sea, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Aquarium, winner of the 1999 Danuta Gleed Award for best first book of stories by a Canadian, The Syllabus, a novel, and the short fiction collection Contrary Angel. His stories have appeared twice in Best Canadian Stories, three times in The Journey ... Read more
Reviews for Lily Pond
"...fiercely alive, marked by a sharp, unerring eye for detail and a wonderful way with metaphors."-Toronto Star "His lucid prose brings to mind Poe's Gothic horror, Hunter S. Thompson's strangeness (without the drug-craze), and William Burroughs' ellipsis (without the disintegration). But it is perhaps closest to Roald Dahl's intimate exploration of human oddity and use of surprise in Switch Bitch."-Globe ... Read more