Hurry Down Sunshine
A Father's Story of Love and Madness
(Sprache: Englisch)
Ein heißer Tag in Manhattan. Michael Greenberg sieht ein Polizeiauto vor seinem Wohnhaus parken. Dass oben zwei Polizisten damit beschäftigt sind, seine von Visionen geschüttelte Tochter zur Ruhe zu bringen, erfährt er erst später. Es ist der Beginn eines...
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Ein heißer Tag in Manhattan. Michael Greenberg sieht ein Polizeiauto vor seinem Wohnhaus parken. Dass oben zwei Polizisten damit beschäftigt sind, seine von Visionen geschüttelte Tochter zur Ruhe zu bringen, erfährt er erst später. Es ist der Beginn eines langen Weges, den er zu gehen hat, um sein Kind in die Wirklichkeit zurückzuholen. "Ich habe das Gefühl zu reisen, aber ohne Möglichkeit zur Umkehr", sagt Sally. Ihr Vater folgt ihr auf dieser "Reise", die sie unter anderem durch die Psychiatrie führt, hin zu einem halbwegs "normalen" Leben. Ein anrührendes Buch, das einen ganz eigenen Sog ausübt.
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A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEARHurry Down Sunshine is an extraordinary family story and a memoir of exceptional power. In it, Michael Greenberg recounts in vivid detail the remarkable summer when, at the age of fifteen, his daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's sudden 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. It is a tale of a family broken open, then painstakingly, movingly stitched together again.
Among Greenberg's unforgettable cast of characters are an unconventional psychiatrist, an Orthodox Jewish patient, a manic Classics professor, a movie producer, and a landlord with literary aspirations. Unsentimental, nuanced, and deeply humane, Hurry Down Sunshine is essential reading in the literature of affliction alongside classics such as Girl, Interrupted and An Unquiet Mind .
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Sally emerges from her room in a thin hospital gown, snap buttons, no laces or ties. She suddenly looks ageless. The only other time I've seen her in a hospital was the night she was born. By that point in our marriage her mother and I were like two people drinking alone in a bar. Not hostile, just miles apart. Yet when Sally appeared, a huge optimism came over us, a physical optimism, primitive and momentarily blind. She was her own truth, complete to herself, so beautifully formed that the jaded maternity nurses marveled at what perfection had just slid into the world. Though she has never set foot in a psychiatric hospital, there is the tacit sense from Sally that she is understood here, she is where she belongs. She acts as if a great burden has been lifted from her. At the same time she is more elevated than ever: feral, glitter-eyed. In 1855 a friend of Robert Schumann observed him at the piano in an asylum near Bonn: "like a machine whose springs are broken, but which still tries to work, jerking convulsively." Sally appears to be heading toward this maimed point of perpetual motion. Her sole concern is to get her pen back, which has been confiscated with most of her other belongings-belt, matches, shoelaces, keys, anything with glass, and her comb with half its teeth snapped off by her potent hair. She initiates an agitated negotiation with the nurses, which immediately threatens to boil over into a serious scene. The nurses confer like referees after a disputed call. Then they grant her a felt-tip marker and march her back to her room.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Greenberg
- 2009, 256 Seiten, Maße: 13,4 x 20,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Vintage, New York
- ISBN-10: 0307473546
- ISBN-13: 9780307473547
Sprache:
Englisch
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