Synopsis
The author of Slackjaw chronicles six months spent by the author in a Minneapolis psychiatric ward following another failed suicide attempt, during which he observes the failings of modern mental health practices and shares the insights of fellow patients. Reprint.
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Jim Knipfel is a staff writer and columnist for the New York Press. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Quitting the Nairobi Trio : A Memoir
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Penguin Publishing Group, 2001
ISBN 10: 0425178366
ISBN 13: 9780425178362
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Paperback. Condition: New. With the same prickly, poignant humor that distinguished his 'brave and astonishing' (Mirabella) debut, Jim Knipfel recounts his six month stay in a Minneapolis mental institution. Offering readers belly laughs and shades of Samuel Beckett, Jim Knipfel is a 'born storyteller' (Thomas Pynchon) who brings a radical new voice to the psychological-memoirist ranks. Seller Inventory # 9780425178362
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