Killing the Black Dog
A Memoir of Depression
In 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the Black Dog (as he calls it) ruled his life. He raged at his wife and children. He ducked a parking ticket on grounds of insanity, and begged a police officer to shoot him rather than arrest him. For days on end he lay in despair, a state in which, as he puts it precisely, you feel beneath help. Killing the Black Dog is Murray's recollection of those awful days: brief, pointed, wise, and full of beauty in the way of his poetry. The prose text-delicately balanced b…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-18106-2
- EAN: 9780374181062
- Produktnummer: 8251650
- Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 98 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.5 cm 136 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 136
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