The Trick Is to Keep Breathing: A Novel
An account from the inside of a mind cracking up...its writing is as taut as a bowstring. From brilliant title to closing injunction, it hums with intelligence, clarity, wit; and, its heroine's struggle for order and meaning seduces our minds, exposes how close we all of us are to insanity. Joy,...
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An account from the inside of a mind cracking up...its writing is as taut as a bowstring. From brilliant title to closing injunction, it hums with intelligence, clarity, wit; and, its heroine's struggle for order and meaning seduces our minds, exposes how close we all of us are to insanity. Joy, as Galloway's heroine reluctantly lets us know that she's called, is simply that dangerous step or two nearer the edge' LISTENER.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781564780461 (1564780465)
Publish date: May 1st 1994
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Pages no: 236
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Psychology,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness,
Scotland
*2015 Reading Challenge*: A book that came out the year you were born
The Trick is to Keep Reading.That is what I had to keep telling myself every 25 pages or so. I would have to break away and move to another book for a bit, before I could breathe in and come back, always willingly, to this Keep Breathing of a novel.There is not too much of a plot in this book. I...
Marked no way because I don't want to be in the position of having to give this a 1* because of lack of interest in the subject.
This book scared me. It made wonder how far or how close I really am from the edge.
The main character in this novel, ironically named Joy, is as deeply depressed as any character I've encountered. Joy has lost her mother to suicide and has broken off her long-term relationship with a boyfriend. She started an affair with a married man who unexpectedly dies as well. Reviewers say t...
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