Henry's Demons: A Father and Son's Journey Out of Madness

Now in paperback, the exceptionally well-reviewed, "intimate and authoritative...outstanding double memoir" (The New York Times Book Review)...
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Author: Patrick Cockburn
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Henry's Demons: A Father and Son's Journey Out of Madness by Cockburn, Patrick

Henry's Demons: A Father and Son's Journey Out of Madness

CHF 24.09

Henry's Demons: A Father and Son's Journey Out of Madness

CHF 24.09
Author: Patrick Cockburn
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Now in paperback, the exceptionally well-reviewed, "intimate and authoritative...outstanding double memoir" (The New York Times Book Review) about schizophrenia written by an eminent journalist and his son.

On a cold February day two months after his twentieth birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into an estuary outside Brighton, England and nearly drowned. Voices, he said, had urged him to do it. Nearly halfway around the world in Afghanistan, journalist Patrick Cockburn learned his son had been admitted to a hospital. Ten days later, Henry was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Narrated by Patrick and Henry, this is the haunting, extraordinary story of the eight years he spent almost entirely in hospitals--and his family's steadfast response to a bewildering condition.

Combining Patrick's frank reporting of his son's transformation from art student to mental patient with Henry's raw, eerily beautiful description of hearing trees and bushes speaking to him, voices compelling him to wander the countryside, the loneliness of life within hospital walls, and finally, his steps towards recovery, Henry's Demons is one of the most profoundly moving and revealing accounts of mental illness ever written.

Author: Patrick Cockburn, Henry Cockburn
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 02/14/2012
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.78h x 5.64w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9781439154717


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 04/01/2012 pg. 28

About the Author
Patrick Cockburn is Iraq correspondent for the Independent in London. He has received the Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting, the James Cameron Award, and the Orwell Prize for Journalism. Henry Cockburn was born in London and raised in Canterbury, where he attended King's School and received several awards for his artwork.He resides at a rehabilitation center in London.

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