false 72956397 150311 6623347 0307473546 9780307473547 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/66/347/6623347-m-1255970829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/66/347/6623347-s-1255970829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6623347-hurry-down-sunshine 3.59 17 A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Hurry 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.]]> 53405 3.36 874 259 2008 5 0 false Tue Sep 29 20:11:39 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 20:11:39 -0700 2009