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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Greg Bottoms |
ISBN: | 0747252718 9780747252719 |
OCLC Number: | 1180956685 |
Description: | 224 p. ; cm. |
Responsibility: | Greg Bottoms. |
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Like any great work of art, Angelhead reads as if it were written to save the author's life. In that manner, it's a necessary book, one that will undoubtedly make you think about how relatively sane your little life seems. The doctors finally called Michael a "paranoid schizophrenic," but where's the awful beauty in that? Far more interesting is the fire-and-brimstone brilliance of the writing that amounts to the author's own diagnosis. "I'd been sucked into Michael and God and Satan's void," Bottoms writes, "an upside-down world where dreams were as solid as stone. I wanted, for one fleeting moment, to have hallucinated, to have broken through reality's delicate plane and into the world of the insane. - EsquireThis is a remarkable book...which sets into brilliant and devasting relief the contrast between the hellish collapse of the author's family and his brother's mind, and the relative ease and security that most of us experience as ''home''. I learnt a lot from this book - Bookseller Read more...

