{"product_id":"angelhead-my-brothers-descent-into-madness-9780226067643","title":"Angelhead: My Brother's Descent Into Madness","description":"A taut, powerful memoir of madness, \u003ci\u003eAngelhead\u003c\/i\u003e documents the violent, drug-addled descent of the author's brother, Michael, into schizophrenia. Beginning with Michael's first psychotic break--seeing God in his suburban bedroom window while high on LSD--Greg Bottoms recounts, in gripping, dramatic prose, the bizarre disappearances, suicide attempts, and the shocking crime that land Michael in the psychiatric wing of a maximum security prison. A work of nonfiction with the form and imagery of a novel, \u003ci\u003eAngelhead\u003c\/i\u003e enables the reader to witness not only the fragmenting of a mind, but of a family as well. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A tour-de-force memoir. . . . Bottoms writes like a poet, he writes like he is on fire.\"--\u003ci\u003eEsquire, \u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year, 2000 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAngelhead\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, albeit inconceivably sad book. The fact that Bottoms survived the ordeal is incredible. But the fact that he could write about it with such pathos and insight is nothing less than extraordinary.\"--\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Greg Bottoms has provided a biographical novel about his brother that may be as close as most of us will ever get to knowing what it is to be truly mad. \u003ci\u003eAngelhead\u003c\/i\u003e is a story nearly as terrifying as the disease it describes.\"--\u003ci\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreg Bottoms is assistant professor of English at the University of Vermont. He has published stories and essays in \u003ci\u003eAlaska Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCreative Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNerve\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409980494098,"sku":"9780226067643","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_844df341-b5dd-457f-9f6b-41cf556e5a5e.jpg?v=1729296969","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/angelhead-my-brothers-descent-into-madness-9780226067643","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}