This close to happy : a reckoning with depression
(Audiobook CD)
Author
Contributors
Toren, Suzanne, narrator.
Published
[Ashland, OR] : Blackstone Audio, [2017].
ISBN
150477308X, 9781504773089, 9781504773096, 1504773098
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Calumet City Public Library - Adult Audiobooks | CD TALKING BOOK 616.8527 MER | On Shelf |
Oak Lawn Public Library - AV | CD 616.85270092 MERKIN | On Shelf |
Prairie Trails Public Library District - Stacks | CD 616.85 MER | On Shelf |
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Published
[Ashland, OR] : Blackstone Audio, [2017].
Format
Audiobook CD
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (9.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
ISBN
150477308X, 9781504773089, 9781504773096, 1504773098
UPC
9781504773096
Notes
General Note
Title from web page.
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by Suzanne Toren.
Description
A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for release this Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime.Taking off from essays on depression she has written for the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction. She recounts the travails of growing up in a large, affluent family where there was a paucity of love and basics such as food and clothing despite the presence of a chauffeur and a cook. She goes on to recount her early hospitalization for depression in poignant detail, as well as her complex relationship with her mercurial, withholding mother.Along the way Merkin also discusses her early, redemptive love of reading and gradual emergence as a writer. She eventually marries, has a child, and suffers severe postpartum depression, for which she is again hospitalized. Merkin also discusses her visits to various therapists and psychopharmocologists, which enables her to probe the causes of depression and its various treatments. The book ends in the present, where the writer has learned how to navigate her depression, if not "cure" it, after a third hospitalization in the wake of her mother's death.
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AUDIOBOOK CD
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Merkin, D., & Toren, S. (2017). This close to happy: a reckoning with depression (Unabridged.). Blackstone Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Merkin, Daphne and Suzanne, Toren. 2017. This Close to Happy: A Reckoning With Depression. Blackstone Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Merkin, Daphne and Suzanne, Toren. This Close to Happy: A Reckoning With Depression Blackstone Audio, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Merkin, Daphne, and Suzanne Toren. This Close to Happy: A Reckoning With Depression Unabridged., Blackstone Audio, 2017.
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