Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
Autor Amanda Sternen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mai 2019
In
the
vein
of
bestselling
memoirs
about
mental
illness
like
Andrew
Solomon'sNoonday
Demon,
Sarah
Hepola'sBlackout,and
Daniel
Smith'sMonkey
Mindcomes
a
gorgeously
immersive,
immediately
relatable,
and
brilliantly
funny
memoir
about
living
life
on
the
razor's
edge
of
panic.
The world never made any sense to Amanda Stern--how could she trust time to keep flowing, the sun to rise, gravity to hold her feet to the ground, or even her own body to work the way it was supposed to? Deep down, she knows that there's something horribly wrong with her, some defect that her siblings and friends don't have to cope with.
Growing
up
in
the
1970s
and
80s
in
New
York,
Amanda
experiences
the
magic
and
madness
of
life
through
the
filter
of
unrelenting
panic.
Plagued
with
fear
that
her
friends
and
family
will
be
taken
from
her
if
she's
not
watching-that
her
mother
will
die,
or
forget
she
has
children
and
just
move
away-Amanda
treats
every
parting
as
her
last.
Shuttled
between
a
barefoot
bohemian
life
with
her
mother
in
Greenwich
Village,
and
a
sanitized,
stricter
world
of
affluence
uptown
with
her
father,
Amanda
has
little
she
can
depend
on.
And
when
Etan
Patz
disappears
down
the
block
from
their
MacDougal
Street
home,
she
can't
help
but
believe
that
all
her
worst
fears
are
about
to
come
true.
Tenderly
delivered
and
expertly
structured,
Amanda
Stern's
memoir
is
a
document
of
the
transformation
of
New
York
City
and
a
deep,
personal,
and
comedic
account
of
the
trials
and
errors
of
seeing
life
through
a
very
unusual
lens.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781538711941
ISBN-10: 153871194X
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 141 x 208 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10: 153871194X
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 141 x 208 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing
Notă biografică
Amanda
Stern
is
the
author
of
the
novelThe
Long
Hauland
the
nine
bookFrankly
Franniemiddle
grade
series.
Since
2003,
she
has
helmed
the
Happy
Ending
Reading
series
and
she's
been
a
NYFA
Fiction
Fellow
and
held
residencies
at
the
MacDowell
Colony
and
Yaddo.
Her
writing
has
appeared
inThe
New
York
Times,New
York
Times
Magazine,Salon,Post
RoadandSt.
Ann's
Review.
Recenzii
"In
this
canny,
insightful,
novelistic
memoir,
Amanda
Stern
traces
the
indelible
path
her
underlying
anxiety
has
traced
in
a
rich
but
often
frustrated
life.
It's
a
book
about
her
emergence
into
and
acceptance
of
mature
identity,
but
it
is
also
about
the
danger
of
love,
the
maze
of
social
pressure,
and
the
tension
between
childhood
expectations
and
adult
realities.
Narrating
with
real
poignance
how
every
experience
she's
had
has
been
filtered
through
her
psychic
vulnerability,
she
achieves
a
symphony
of
complex
fragilities
and
redeeming
strengths."—Andrew
Solomon,
National
Book
Award-winning
author
ofFar
From
the
Tree
"Little Panicis an intimate and sweeping story of hyper-vigilance. Cheeky and vivid and transporting, it's also extremely funny. Stern's book conveys just how isolating mental illness really is, how it creates almost a second existence for those who suffer it. As I read it I had the sense of someone living underwater, watching the world going on effortlessly above. I was swept up. I spend my life hoping to find books like this."—Sarah Manguso, author of 300 Arguments: Essays
"With courage and a keen sense of humor, Little Panic delves beneath the surface of the terms, tests, and judgements we apply to our mental existence in order to recover the experiential richness buried beneath. Readers will recognize themselves in Stern's psychological coming-of-age, keenly empathetic and vibrantly felt."—Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
"Brave, in the truest sense of the word, Amanda Stern's Little Panic is a document of survival of the fittest. This is the book for anyone-who has dropped a beat, a week or a year, feeling afraid not just of the dark, but of life, of being left alone in this world. A haunting story of the impact of time and place-the backdrop of Etan Patz's vanishing, New York in the 1970s-split between parents and worlds, struggling to find a place of her own. Little Panic is a stunning reminder of what it is to be human."—A. M. Homes, bestselling author of The Mistress's Daughter and Days of Awe
"Amanda Stern sees childhood with perfect clarity, and she sees how we, as adults, are still living in childhood. Little Panic will make you feel alot. Without a doubt, it is a masterpiece."—Darin Strauss, author ofHalf a Life
"Stern has succeeded in writing an often-funny tale about mental illness....A good reminder that all people, including those who "learn differently," need empathy and human connection."—Booklist
"Moving...vivid and illuminating."—BBC, "Ten Books to Read in June"
"Stern's frank, funny memoir about living with anxiety...will have chronic worrywarts laugh-crying with recognition."—O, The Oprah Magazine
"Brave, fiercely funny...a brilliant read that offers hope for anyone burdened by anxiety. "—People Magazine
"Visceral, pulsating realness. Alternating between past and present, Amanda details the growing anxiety of America through her own experience while weaving in a richly portrayed, fascinating portrait of New York's bohemian Greenwich Village scene of the 1970s and '80s. If you suffer from anxiety or are simply curious about the experience, it's a must-read."—MIND BODY GREEN, 5 BOOKS YOU WONT BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN THIS JULY
"Amanda Stern paints a painfully honest and heartbreaking picture of her life living with an anxiety disorder....LITTLE PANIC will make you feel less alone."—Hello Giggles
"Resonant and often funny."—New York Times Book Review
"Entertaining and sad and funny and relatable....LITTLE PANIC grips and discomfits in the best way."—Salon
"Amanda
Stern
has
written
an
affecting,
emotionally
vivid
memoir
that
really
succeeds
in
giving
the
reader
the
sense
of
what
it
might
be
like
to
be
another
person,
with
all
the
experiences
and
sensations-including
the
most
difficult
ones-that
that
entails.
Her
book
is
reflective,
authentic,
alive."
—Meg
Wolitzer,
New
York
Times
bestselling
author
of
The
Female
Persuasion"Little Panicis an intimate and sweeping story of hyper-vigilance. Cheeky and vivid and transporting, it's also extremely funny. Stern's book conveys just how isolating mental illness really is, how it creates almost a second existence for those who suffer it. As I read it I had the sense of someone living underwater, watching the world going on effortlessly above. I was swept up. I spend my life hoping to find books like this."—Sarah Manguso, author of 300 Arguments: Essays
"With courage and a keen sense of humor, Little Panic delves beneath the surface of the terms, tests, and judgements we apply to our mental existence in order to recover the experiential richness buried beneath. Readers will recognize themselves in Stern's psychological coming-of-age, keenly empathetic and vibrantly felt."—Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
"Brave, in the truest sense of the word, Amanda Stern's Little Panic is a document of survival of the fittest. This is the book for anyone-who has dropped a beat, a week or a year, feeling afraid not just of the dark, but of life, of being left alone in this world. A haunting story of the impact of time and place-the backdrop of Etan Patz's vanishing, New York in the 1970s-split between parents and worlds, struggling to find a place of her own. Little Panic is a stunning reminder of what it is to be human."—A. M. Homes, bestselling author of The Mistress's Daughter and Days of Awe
"Amanda Stern sees childhood with perfect clarity, and she sees how we, as adults, are still living in childhood. Little Panic will make you feel alot. Without a doubt, it is a masterpiece."—Darin Strauss, author ofHalf a Life
"Stern has succeeded in writing an often-funny tale about mental illness....A good reminder that all people, including those who "learn differently," need empathy and human connection."—Booklist
"Moving...vivid and illuminating."—BBC, "Ten Books to Read in June"
"Stern's frank, funny memoir about living with anxiety...will have chronic worrywarts laugh-crying with recognition."—O, The Oprah Magazine
"Brave, fiercely funny...a brilliant read that offers hope for anyone burdened by anxiety. "—People Magazine
"Visceral, pulsating realness. Alternating between past and present, Amanda details the growing anxiety of America through her own experience while weaving in a richly portrayed, fascinating portrait of New York's bohemian Greenwich Village scene of the 1970s and '80s. If you suffer from anxiety or are simply curious about the experience, it's a must-read."—MIND BODY GREEN, 5 BOOKS YOU WONT BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN THIS JULY
"Amanda Stern paints a painfully honest and heartbreaking picture of her life living with an anxiety disorder....LITTLE PANIC will make you feel less alone."—Hello Giggles
"Resonant and often funny."—New York Times Book Review
"Entertaining and sad and funny and relatable....LITTLE PANIC grips and discomfits in the best way."—Salon