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Edition:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9780593671030
Content:
"Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , and The Atlantic A Washington Post Notable Book &ldquo,rave and nuanced&hellip,n act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.&rdquo, &mdash,/i〉 The New York Times &ldquo,mmensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.&rdquo, &mdash,/i〉 Wall Street Journal Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen&rsquo, haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand&mdash,nd fail to understand&mdash,ental illness. When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable.160 Both children of college professors, the boys were best friends and keen competitors, and, when they both got into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite. Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. But all wasn&rsquo, as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Michael was still in the hospital when he learned he'd been accepted to Yale Law School, and still battling delusions when he decided to trade his halfway house for the top law school in the country. He not only managed to graduate, but after his extraordinary story was featured in The New York Times , sold160 a memoir for a large sum. Ron Howard bought film rights, completing the dream for Michael and his tirelessly supportive girlfriend Carrie. But then Michael, in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, stabbed Carrie to death with a kitchen knife and became a front-page story of an entirely different sort. The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen's brilliant and heartbreaking account of an American tragedy. It is a story about the bonds of family, friendship, and community,the promise of intellectual achievement,and the lure of utopian solutions. Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, at times almost unbearably sad, The Best Minds is an extreme version of a story that is tragically familiar to all too many.160 In the hands of a writer of Jonathan Rosen's gifts and dedication, its significance will echo widely."
Content:
Rezension(1): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from February 27, 2023 In this dazzling memoir, essayist Rosen ( The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature ) chronicles his thorny relationship with his childhood friend Michael Laudor, a lawyer and disability rights advocate who made headlines in 1998 for murdering his fianc233"
Language:
English
Keywords:
Hörbuch
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