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Rabbits for food / Binnie Kirshenbaum.

By:

Kirshenbaum, Binnie

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: >New York : Soho Press, Inc , 2019Description: 371 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9781641290531

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DDC classification:

FIC KIR

LOC classification:

PS3561.I775 R33 2019

Summary: A story of a writer's slide into depression and institutionalization. It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist - an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer - fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital where she refuses all modes of recommended treatment. Instead, she passes the time chronicling the lives of her fellow "lunatics" and writing a novel about how she got to this place. Her story is a hilarious and harrowing deep dive into the disordered mind of a woman who sees the world all too clearly. Rabbits for Food shows how art can lead us out of - or into - the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC KIR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		032672

A story of a writer's slide into depression and institutionalization. It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist - an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer - fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital where she refuses all modes of recommended treatment. Instead, she passes the time chronicling the lives of her fellow "lunatics" and writing a novel about how she got to this place. Her story is a hilarious and harrowing deep dive into the disordered mind of a woman who sees the world all too clearly. Rabbits for Food shows how art can lead us out of - or into - the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief.

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