Clancy Martin

How Not to Kill Yourself

Portrait of a Suicidal Mind

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An honest, personal, lyrical investigation into the suicidal mind

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oneworld Publications
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 143mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780861540488
• ISBN-10: 0861540484
• Artikelnr.: 67153367

Autorenporträt

Clancy Martin¿s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper¿s, Esquire, Lapham¿s Quarterly, The Paris Review and many other prominent publications. His books include the critically acclaimed How to Sell and Love and Lies. 

Inhaltsangabe

A Note to the Reader • xi
Preface • xiii
 
Part I SUICIDAL TENDENCIES
1 The Suicidal Mind • 3
2 Is There a Death Drive? • 34
3 I Can Always Just Kill Myself Tomorrow • 59
4 They Fuck You Up / Your Mum and Dad (Part I) • 90
 
Part II ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE
5 Drinking Myself to Death • 113
6 Philosophical Suicide • 156
7 The Sickness unto Death: Observations from Édouard Levé, David Foster
Wallace, and Nelly Arcan • 192
8 The Afterlife, or, Welcome to the Psych Ward • 223
 
Part III THE LONG ROAD BACK
9 Relapse Is Part of Recovery • 249
10 They Fuck You Up / Your Mum and Dad (Part II) • 263
11 A Good Death? • 286
 
Acknowledgments • 335
Appendix I. Tools for Crisis • 337
Appendix II. In Case of Emergency: Interviews on Staying Alive • 341
Notes • 367
Index • 409