false 2177563 10 From the author of the best-selling Wasted, an astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disease, reflecting major new insights<BR><BR>When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did not yet know the reason for her all-but-shattered young life. At age twenty-four, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type 1 rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disease there is.<BR><BR>In Madness, in her trademark wry and utterly self-revealing voice, Hornbacher tells her new story. Through scenes of astonishing visceral and emotional power, she takes us inside her own desperate attempts to control 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 difficult and sometimes beautiful life and marriage—where bipolar always beckons—is at the heart of this brave and heart-stopping memoir.<BR><BR>Madness delivers the revelation that Hornbacher is not alone: there are millions of people in America struggling with a variety of disorders that may mask their true diagnosis of bipolar. Also, Hornbacher's fiercely self-aware portrait of her own bipolar as early as age four will powerfully change the current debate on whether bipolar in children exists.<BR><BR>Ten years after Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind, this storm of a memoir will provoke, educate, and move. 2183241 book 9 4 2008 Madness: A Bipolar Life total:618|5:177|4:212|3:161|2:48|1:20| 618 2332 1259 153 2177563 0618754458 9780618754458 579 142 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255911284m/2177563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177563.Madness_A_Bipolar_Life 1 3 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 07:31:07 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 07:46:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2177563 0618754458 9780618754458 579 142 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255911284m/2177563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177563.Madness_A_Bipolar_Life 5 2 false Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 22:37:35 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 19:55:14 -0700 2008 Marya Hornbacher could do it, but she redeemed herself by being more honest and upfront and REAL about her illness and willingness to get better than she was in Wasted, and more than Elizabeth Wurtzel ever, ever did. ...more...]]> 2177563 0618754458 9780618754458 579 142 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255911284m/2177563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177563.Madness_A_Bipolar_Life 4 2 false Sun Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 17:23:43 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 17:53:35 -0700 2008 Wasted, a decade ago and was impressed by the strength of her voice then. But while she'd managed to fight back against her eating disorder, it turns out that she hadn't even begun to deal with her alcoholism and, more fundamentally, had only just begun to confront ...more...]]> 2177563 0618754458 9780618754458 579 142 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255911284m/2177563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177563.Madness_A_Bipolar_Life 4 2 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 15:47:36 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 15:47:55 -0800 2009
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The whole time I was reading it, I felt like I might as well be reading about an entirely different person. In Wasted, Hornbacher seemed to define herself by her eating disorder--she was trul...more...]]> 2177563 0618754458 9780618754458 579 142 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255911284m/2177563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177563.Madness_A_Bipolar_Life 3 0 false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 18:03:08 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 18:06:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2177563 0618754458 9780618754458 579 142 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255911284m/2177563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177563.Madness_A_Bipolar_Life 4 0 false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 09:53:45 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 19:23:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2177563 0618754458 9780618754458 579 142 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255911284m/2177563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177563.Madness_A_Bipolar_Life 3 0 false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 08:12:27 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 08:12:27 -0800 2009 2 more...]]> 2177563 0618754458 9780618754458 579 142 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255911284m/2177563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177563.Madness_A_Bipolar_Life 5 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 20:55:04 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 23:09:10 -0800 2009 Madness spans 1978 - 2007 and is utterly vivid throughout. While some memoirs covering that many years get watered down or lose focus, Hornbacher uses representative events to tell her story rather than trying to cover every moment of her lifetime. Slashing her artery by accident begins the book and...more...]]> 2177563 0618754458 9780618754458 579 142 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255911284m/2177563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177563.Madness_A_Bipolar_Life 4 1 false Tue Aug 05 14:36:02 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 09:17:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2177563 0618754458 9780618754458 579 142 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255911284m/2177563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177563.Madness_A_Bipolar_Life 3 0 false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 15:02:20 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 06:36:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2177563 0618754458 9780618754458 579 142 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255911284m/2177563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177563.Madness_A_Bipolar_Life 4 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 16:14:30 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 18:18:38 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 2177563 0618754458 9780618754458 579 142 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255911284m/2177563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177563.Madness_A_Bipolar_Life 5 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 04:10:50 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 04:17:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2177563 0618754458 9780618754458 579 142 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255911284m/2177563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177563.Madness_A_Bipolar_Life 4 0 false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 17:55:55 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 15:22:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4882966 0547237804 9780547237800 28 9 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255723275m/4882966.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4882966.Madness_A_Bipolar_Life 3 0 false Wed Apr 01 19:36:12 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 19:49:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6871987