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The Rapids is a cultural history of manic depression twinned with a personal narrative told through an innovative approach to writing memoir.

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Ways of Being Seen 1. Let us now open on a naked man on a street corner in San Diego Ways of Reading 2. Black backpack, crowbar, torch, book 3. A short tour through the cultural history of manic depression 4. Rapid thought generator: Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift and Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo Ways of Seeing 5. It’s just too fucking too: Mania in cinema and the films of Paul Thomas Anderson 6. Under her influence Ways of Being 7. Speak, Spalding! 8. The Reckoning 9. Carrie F [October 21, 1956–December 27, 2016] Two Lives 10. This is all to say that I do not know the story at all A Life 11. The rapids: a coda in cuts Author’s note Works consulted Acknowledgments

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: 15/09/2020
      ISBN13: 9781487507824, 978-1487507824
      ISBN10: 1487507828
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Rapids is a cultural history of manic depression twinned with a personal narrative told through an innovative approach to writing memoir.

      Table of Contents
      Ways of Being Seen 1. Let us now open on a naked man on a street corner in San Diego Ways of Reading 2. Black backpack, crowbar, torch, book 3. A short tour through the cultural history of manic depression 4. Rapid thought generator: Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift and Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo Ways of Seeing 5. It’s just too fucking too: Mania in cinema and the films of Paul Thomas Anderson 6. Under her influence Ways of Being 7. Speak, Spalding! 8. The Reckoning 9. Carrie F [October 21, 1956–December 27, 2016] Two Lives 10. This is all to say that I do not know the story at all A Life 11. The rapids: a coda in cuts Author’s note Works consulted Acknowledgments

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