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A memoir that chronicles unflinchingly the destructiveness of bipolar disorder - an illness that infiltrates thinking, feeling and acting in ways that change the very fabric of identity, of the life story one is telling oneself; however, The Lily Pond is equally searching in its exploration of the psyche's resources in healing and reknitting that story.

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"...fiercely alive, marked by a sharp, unerring eye for detail and a wonderful way with metaphors."-Toronto Star "His lucid prose brings to mind Poe's Gothic horror, Hunter S. Thompson's strangeness (without the drug-craze), and William Burroughs' ellipsis (without the disintegration). But it is perhaps closest to Roald Dahl's intimate exploration of human oddity and use of surprise in Switch Bitch."-Globe and Mail "Barnes writes like a contrary angel, dazzling with his deft craft and smacking readers in the gut with concentrated and perceptive subjects."-Malahat Review

The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth

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      Publisher: Biblioasis
      Publication Date: 16/10/2008
      ISBN13: 9781897231487, 978-1897231487
      ISBN10: 1897231482

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A memoir that chronicles unflinchingly the destructiveness of bipolar disorder - an illness that infiltrates thinking, feeling and acting in ways that change the very fabric of identity, of the life story one is telling oneself; however, The Lily Pond is equally searching in its exploration of the psyche's resources in healing and reknitting that story.

      Trade Review
      "...fiercely alive, marked by a sharp, unerring eye for detail and a wonderful way with metaphors."-Toronto Star "His lucid prose brings to mind Poe's Gothic horror, Hunter S. Thompson's strangeness (without the drug-craze), and William Burroughs' ellipsis (without the disintegration). But it is perhaps closest to Roald Dahl's intimate exploration of human oddity and use of surprise in Switch Bitch."-Globe and Mail "Barnes writes like a contrary angel, dazzling with his deft craft and smacking readers in the gut with concentrated and perceptive subjects."-Malahat Review

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