Lights on, rats out : a memoir
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New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2017.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition., First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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312 pages ; 22 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Oliver La Farge - Adult | 616.8582 LeF | Checked Out | April 29, 2024 |
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Published
New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2017.
Edition
First edition., First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Describes a [self-harming] woman's charged attachment to a mental health professional and the dangerous compulsion to keep him in her life at all costs"--Amazon.com.
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"As a young college graduate a year into treatment with a psychiatrist, Cree LeFavour began to organize her days around the cruel, compulsive logic of self-harm: with each newly lit cigarette, the world would drop away as her focus narrowed on the blooming release of pleasure-pain as the burning tip was applied to an unblemished patch of skin. Her body was a canvas of cruelty; each scar a mark of pride and shame. In sharp and shocking language, Lights On, Rats Out brings us closely into these years. We see the world as Cree did--turned upside down, the richness of life muted and dulled, its pleasures perverted. The heady thrill of meeting with her psychiatrist, Dr. Adam N. Kohl--whose relationship with Cree is at once sustaining and paralyzing--comes to be the only bright spot in her days. Lights On, Rats Out describes a fiercely smart and independent woman's charged attachment to a mental health professional and the dangerous compulsion to keep him in her life at all costs."--Jacket.
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