Madness A Bipolar Life

Name: Madness A Bipolar Life
Price: 3.15 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780547237800

ISBN-10: 0547237804

ISBN-13: 9780547237800

Edition: 2009

Authors: Marya Hornbacher

List price: $16.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $13.10

Marketplace

3 new & used from $3.15

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did not yet have the piece of shattering knowledge that would finally make sense of the chaos of her life. At age twenty-four, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type I rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disorder. In Madness, Hornbacher tells her new story. Through scenes of astonishing visceral and emotional power, she takes us inside her own desperate attempts to counteract violently careening mood swings by self-starvation, substance abuse, numbing sex, and self-mutilation. How Hornbacher fights her way up from a madness that all but destroys her, and what it is like to live in a…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning journalist and bestselling writer. Her books include the memoirs Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, which has been published in twelve languages, and the New York Times bestseller Madness: A Bipolar Life; the recovery books Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the Twelve Steps, and Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power; and the novel The Center of Winter. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Northwestern University and lives in Chicago.