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Chargement... Hello to All That: A Memoir of Zoloft, War, and Peacepar John Falk
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. He woke up one morning as a teenager, depressed, and was severely depressed till he discovered Zoloft. Then he became his dream, a foreign correspondent in Sarajevo. Written in alternating chapters about the depression and the Bosnian war - I liked the former better, but the whole thing was really good.
An off-the-wall, heartbreaking, and often hilarious memoir of a correspondent reporting from the front lines while also battling his lifelong nemesis-chronic depression. His own chemistry was his worst enemy, and it took John Falk to some very strange places-from Garden City, Long Island, to sniper-infested Sarajevo during the Bosnian bloodbath. But through it all, in the face of chronic depression, he kept reaching out for the life he'd always wanted. Hello to All That is his story-crazed, comic, poignant, suspenseful, hopeful. Falk was an average Long Island kid, until depression left him ashamed and trapped behind an impenetrable chemical wall. Barely surviving on "chin-up" tips from his big, loyal, boisterous family, Falk tried to fight his disease-or hide it. But by twenty-four, he was alone, living on books by war correspondents, their adventures his only escape. Then he found a blue pill called Zoloft and set out on a mission to make his own name as a correspondent during one of the most dangerous conflicts in recent memory. Falk's journey has never been predictable, and neither is his moving, outrageous, and sometimes frightening memoir. Here is the riveting tale of a man's lifelong battle-the struggle to defeat his greatest enemy and to connect, cure himself, and finally live. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I first came across Falk's writing when he wrote a piece for Details magazine about two snipers of the Balkan's war. The piece was fascinating and dealt with a pair of former, childhood friends, turned snipers (a Serbian and a Bosnian) hunting each other. HBO later made a movie out of the story called Shot Through The Heart.
Falk's memoir deals with his battle of depression mental illness and is one of the better chronicles of a person's struggle with these diseases.
Falk's memoir provides more details of his war correspondence and search for relief from his illness.
Highly recommended.
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