Angelhead My Brother's Descent into Madness

Name: Angelhead My Brother's Descent into Madness
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ISBN: 9780226067643

ISBN-10: 0226067645

ISBN-13: 9780226067643

Edition: 2005

Authors: Greg Bottoms

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A taut, powerful memoir of madness, Angelheaddocuments the violent, drug-addled descent of the author's brother, Michael, into schizophrenia. Beginning with Michael's first psychotic break—seeing God in his suburban bedroom window while high on LSD—Greg Bottoms recounts, in gripping, dramatic prose, the bizarre disappearances, suicide attempts, and the shocking crime that land Michael in the psychiatric wing of a maximum security prison. A work of nonfiction with the form and imagery of a novel, Angelheadenables the reader to witness not only the fragmenting of a mind, but of a family as well."A tour-de-force memoir. . . . Bottoms writes like a poet, he writes like he is on…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 227
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Greg Bottoms' writing has been published in "Salon," "Feed," "Nerve," & "The Beacon Best of 1999." He lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.



God: A Memory


Middle-Class


Sacrifice


Secrets


Penance


Jesus


Florida


Science


Delinquents


Assistance


Demons


Confession


Infamy


Absence


Intent


Evidence


Apocrypha


Acknowledgments