Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania - Softcover

Behrman, Andy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812967089 ISBN 13: 9780812967081

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2003

Synopsis

The author describes his longtime battle with ills of manic depression, his desperate search for the ultimate high, the art-forgery scandal that confined him to jail and to house arrest, and his decision to opt for the controversial treatment of electroconvulsive therapy to preserve his sanity. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Behrman writes so vividly that his turbulent mood swings are brought to the page unnervingly intact...This true story is remarkable" -- The Times

"Electroboy is the story of a very modern lost soul" -- Sunday Telegraph

...a humbling and, in the end, rather uplifting read -- Melanie McGrath in The Evening Standard

...his tales of drugs, sex'n'spending sprees are as fascinating and as repellent as a road accident -- The Face

Behrman's chronicle of his descent into madness reads like a kind of Rake's Progress for the late 20th century -- Matt Seaton in Esquire Magazine

The book...is compulsively readable...Electroboy is the story of a very modern lost soul -- Anthony Daniels in the Sunday Telegraph

This true story is remarkable. -- Jerome Boyd Maunsell in The Times

From the Publisher:

"Electroboy is like a non-fiction version of American Psycho...His life is a metaphor for the ‘80s – everything is overblown and out of control. But Electroboy is also a sensitive account of manic depression – medication, analysis, an obsession with suicide and, finally, electric shock treatment. This fusion is pure genius." Dazed & Confused

"Andy Behrman’s Electroboy truly is an astonishing piece of writing...That it really happened to the author is, quite frankly, astounding, tragic and hilarious by turns...even sober and sane he is totally outrageous...He makes Elizabeth Wurtzel, America’s queen of drugs and depression, look like Mary Poppins" Sunday Express

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0812967089
• ISBN 13: 9780812967081
• Binding: Paperback