Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness

Type

Book

Authors

Greg Bottoms

ISBN 10

0226067645

ISBN 13

9780226067643

Tags

Memoirs, Reference & Collections, Siblings, Reference, Mental Illness, Pathologies, Psychopathology

Description

A taut, powerful memoir of madness, Angelhead documents 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, Angelhead enables the reader to witness not only the fragmenting of a mind, but of a family as well.

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