{"product_id":"hurry-down-sunshine-isbn-9781590519813","title":"Hurry Down Sunshine","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eHurry Down Sunshine \u003c\/i\u003eis about tenacity and tenderness...but mostly it’s about love.” \u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003eOPRAH WINFREY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH PICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis international bestseller is an extraordinary family story and an exceptionally powerful memoir about coping withbipolar disorder, now with a new afterword for the ten-year anniversary edition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael 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 sweltering summer. It is a tale of a family broken open, then painstakingly, movingly stitched together again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreenberg's unforgettable cast of characters includes 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, \u003ci\u003eHurry Down Sunshine\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading in the literature of affliction with such classics as \u003ci\u003eGirl, Interrupted\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAn Unquiet Mind\u003c\/i\u003e.“Lucid, realistic, compassionate, and illuminating…In its detail, depth, richness, and sheer intelligence, \u003ci\u003eHurry Down Sunshine \u003c\/i\u003ewill be recognized as a classic of its kind.” —Oliver Sacks, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eHurry Down Sunshine\u003c\/i\u003e] is about tenacity and tenderness, feeling helpless but being present, about cracking up, then finding the wherewithal to glue the jagged pieces of your mind back together again. But mostly it’s about love.” —Oprah Winfrey, in her letter to readers in \u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Touching, warmly intimate, and unsparing…Like the best fiction, this memoir has transcended the merely particular and eccentric to constitute a kind of hard-won art.” —Joyce Carol Oates, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Triumphant…Greenberg renders the details of his daughter’s breakdown with lyrical precision.” —\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“[A] remarkable account.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“There is a dancing, dazzling siren seductress at the heart of this book and…[it is] madness itself…The startling associative imagery that gives Greenberg’s writing its power is like a domesticated version of the madness that nearly carried away his daughter’s life.” —\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This memoir of a family crisis captures the grief that transformed their lives…readers come away with a sense of the intractable nature of psychosis and the courage it requires for patients like Sally, whose struggles continue, merely to live.” —\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] finely observed memoir…written in delicately episodic style. Vivid.” —\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Beautifully written…The literary precedents Greenberg turns to are Joyce and Robert Lowell…There are echoes of Virginia Woolf, too…Sally’s psychiatrist calls…the mind falling in love with its delusions…‘the evil seduction.’ But Greenberg can understand the impulse, and it’s this that gives \u003ci\u003eHurry Down Sunshine\u003c\/i\u003e such power.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eHurry Down Sunshine\u003c\/i\u003e’s] fundamental strength arises from Greenberg’ s insistence on facing the demons that held his girl in their dark thrall. Sally’ s descent and tentative return form the map for this story; Greenberg’s courage lies in his willingness to follow her down that terrible path, no matter where it leads.” —\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A story of almost mythic power…A compelling narrative about how one family coped with madness…Tough and lyrical…Greenberg brings a true writer’s sensibility to every line.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] moving, brutally self-examining and unsettling memoir.” —\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Greenberg] writes beautifully…[He is] gratefully and minutely observant…His cast captivates.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Observer \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The psychotic break of his fifteen-year-old daughter is the grit around which Michael Greenberg forms the pearl that is \u003ci\u003eHurry Down Sunshine\u003c\/i\u003e. It is a brilliant, taut, entirely original study of a suffering child and a family and marriage under siege.” —Janet Malcolm, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath \u0026amp; Ted Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Journalist and the Murderer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“One of the most gripping and disturbingly honest books I have ever read. The courage Michael Greenberg shows in narrating the story of his adolescent daughter’s descent into psychosis is matched by his acute understanding of how alone each of us is, sane or manic, in our processing of reality and our attempts to get others to appreciate what seems important to us. This is a remarkable memoir.” —Phillip Lopate, author of \u003ci\u003eTwo Marriages\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Greenberg \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eHurry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDown Sunshine \u003c\/i\u003e(Other Press, 2008), published in sixteen countries and chosen as one of the best books of 2008 by \u003ci\u003eTime,\u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, Amazon.com, and \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a columnist for the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiterary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has appeared in such varied places as \u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMagazine \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives in New York.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.","brand":"Other Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300931621093,"sku":"NP9781590519813","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590519813.jpg?v=1767729551","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/hurry-down-sunshine-isbn-9781590519813","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}