Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir - Hardcover

Jamison, Kay Redfield

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307265374 ISBN 13: 9780307265371

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2009

Synopsis

An award-winning Johns Hopkins psychiatrist traces her marriage to a renowned scientist who overcame severe dyslexia to become a forefront expert on schizophrenia, describing his slow surrender to cancer and her own struggles to overcome grief and depression. By the author of An Unquiet Mind.

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Review

"The great gift Jamison offers here, beyond her honesty and the beauty of her writing, is perspective: a cleared-eyed view of illness and death, sanity and insanity, love and grief . . . To write the truth with such passion and grace is remarkable enough. To do this in loving memory of a partner is tribute indeed."
—The Washington Post
 
"This is a finely told midlife love story, a romance as elegant as it is doomed . . . What a couple she and her husband . . . made! . . . Jamison writes simply and believably."
—AARP Magazine

"A unique account, filled with exquisitely wrought nuances of emotion, of her husband's death . . . In her brilliant explication distinguishing between madness and grief, her battle to remain sane is as stirring as his to beat cancer. "
"Elegiac and emotionally precise."
—Oprah Magazine
 
—Booklist (starred review)
 
"A soul-baring love letter. "
—Kirkus Reviews
 
"A superb

A "Washington Post" Best Book of the Year
"A cleared-eyed view of illness and death, sanity and insanity, love and grief. . . . Spare. . . . Poetic. . . . Piercing. . . . The great gift Jamison offers here, beyond her honesty and the beauty of her writing, is perspective. . . . To write the truth with such passion and grace is remarkable enough. To do this in loving memory of a partner is tribute indeed."
--"The Washington Post"
"In "An Unquiet Mind," Kay Jamison wrote with exceptional bravery and grace about living through mania, paralyzing depressions, and a suicide attempt. Here, with the same strength of mind and sweetness of spirit, she writes about her husband's [death] as well as her own struggles with loss and grief. . . . Because Jamison understands depression so well, she is able to make the distinctions between depression and grief with great precision and sensitivity."
--"The Boston Globe"
"Fascinating. . . . Captivating. . . . As one who has experienced clinical depression, [Jamison] is in a singular position to compare it with grief . . . . In this slim, intense memoir Jamison shows us that mourning leads us back to life."
--Michael Greenberg, "The New York Times Book Review"
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"A meditation on grief as necessary and inevitable, and not to be confused with mental illness. . . . Insightful. . . . Elegantly written. . . . It's a credit to the warmth and intimacy of Jamison's voice that we connect with her underlying message: Tragedy doesn't discriminate."
--"Los Angeles Times"
"Elegiac and emotionally precise."
--"O, The""Oprah Magazine"
"A wonderful book. Jamison has the ability to make love seem so real and reachable; her writing always makes me happy to speak and write the English language. It contains great beauty."
--Pat Conroy, author of "The Prince of Tides "and "South of Broad"
"This is a finely told midlife love story, a romance as elegant as it is doomed. . . . What a couple she and her husband made! . . . Jamison writes simply and believably."
--"AARP Magazine"
"A soul-baring love letter."
--"Kirkus Reviews"
"Sober yet heartening. . . . Jamison is at her most insightful drawing distinctions between [mental illness] and mourning."
--"The Washingtonian"
"A unique account, filled with exquisitely wrought nuances of emotion, of her husband's death. . . . In her brilliant explication distinguishing between madness and grief, her battle to remain sane is as stirring as his to beat cancer."
--"Booklist" (starred review)

A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
"A cleared-eyed view of illness and death, sanity and insanity, love and grief. . . . Spare. . . . Poetic. . . . Piercing. . . . The great gift Jamison offers here, beyond her honesty and the beauty of her writing, is perspective. . . . To write the truth with such passion and grace is remarkable enough. To do this in loving memory of a partner is tribute indeed."
--The Washington Post
"In An Unquiet Mind, Kay Jamison wrote with exceptional bravery and grace about living through mania, paralyzing depressions, and a suicide attempt. Here, with the same strength of mind and sweetness of spirit, she writes about her husband's [death] as well as her own struggles with loss and grief. . . . Because Jamison understands depression so well, she is able to make the distinctions between depression and grief with great precision and sensitivity."
--The Boston Globe
"Fascinating. . . . Captivating. . . . As one who has experienced clinical depression, [Jamison] is in a singular position to compare it with grief . . . . In this slim, intense memoir Jamison shows us that mourning leads us back to life."
--Michael Greenberg, The New York Times Book Review

"A meditation on grief as necessary and inevitable, and not to be confused with mental illness. . . . Insightful. . . . Elegantly written. . . . It's a credit to the warmth and intimacy of Jamison's voice that we connect with her underlying message: Tragedy doesn't discriminate."
--Los Angeles Times
"Elegiac and emotionally precise."
--O, The Oprah Magazine
"A wonderful book. Jamison has the ability to make love seem so real and reachable; her writing always makes me happy to speak and write the English language. It contains great beauty."
--Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides and South of Broad
"This is a finely told midlife love story, a romance as elegant as it is doomed. . . . What a couple she and her husband made! . . . Jamison writes simply and believably."
--AARP Magazine
"A soul-baring love letter."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Sober yet heartening. . . . Jamison is at her most insightful drawing distinctions between [mental illness] and mourning."
--The Washingtonian
"A unique account, filled with exquisitely wrought nuances of emotion, of her husband's death. . . . In her brilliant explication distinguishing between madness and grief, her battle to remain sane is as stirring as his to beat cancer."
--Booklist (starred review)

About the Author

Kay Redfield Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and codirector of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center. She is also Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of the national best sellers An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls Fast, as well as Exuberance and Touched with Fire; the coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; and the author or coauthor of more than one hundred scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psychopharmacology. She is the recipient of numerous national and international scientific awards and of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0307265374
• ISBN 13: 9780307265371
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208