Second Alibi: The Banality of Life
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (800 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00N37L3CQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 545 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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With Second Alibi: The Banality of Life, he revisits the abrasive, triangular psychodrama of his brilliant, questing psychotic Ben Schreiber, Ben's libertine alter-ego, Georgie Gust, and the sadistic temptress, Claudia Nesbitt, who torments them both, while also including a moving plea for understanding that stands apart from the disturbed fevers of his fiction."This is a story, I hope, about my coming to enlightenment," Harnisch writes, and in that vein he enlightens us, too, about the fantastic terrors of schizophrenia: "What this life is like with the ups and the downs, the confusion, the love and the hate; the black and the white." He tells us about his moods abruptly shifting 25 times in an hour, his suicide attempts and addictions, the grim realities of sleep deprivation and the fear that his beloved wife has been reading his mind.Second Alibi toggles unpredictably between semi-coherent rage (Harnisch says he often writes when symptomatic) and cool detachment, and it deploys several forms: Harnisch's sexually-charged fiction (Claudia is "a slow-moving serpent with a tongue of fire and the ass of a bombshell"); a 106-page screenplay featuring dialogues between Ben and his old antagonists, and with his li
Be prepared for page turning insight into the mind of mental illness! Just an update n my review. I started using My Alibiography by Johnathan Harnisch in my College course for students to get a better understanding real life as lived by someone who actually lives the life. Everyday millions of us hide our mental illness behind masks to protect ourselves from social ostracism, bullying, crime, and ignorance. We face the stigma of mental illness tha. To forgive with all his heart In synchronicity of my reading this book and the simplicity of his world that is his complex reality, his words become my feeling of knowing.Through all the debris, hallucinations, angry moods, memories, thoughts at his very core lie his undeniable truth.The tears in his eyes are his deepest feelings of the need to be himself to feel the most profound love for who he is. To forgi
"Whatis it like to suffer fromschizophrenia combined withTourette's syndrome? Harnisch's answers to such questions and the ways in which theyare portrayed prove complex. My wife was texting me, and I was convinced that it was my stepmotherimpersonating my wife." Wildly varied in style and content, making foran informative and strange trip through the experience of mentaldisorders."- Kirkus Reviews. Mixing diary entrieswith ascreenplaymessages are often jumbled though not without merit, aswhen the narrator announces that "I had a paranoid spell last night