Penguin Group
The Best Minds : A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Product Code:
9780143132899
ISBN13:
9780143132899
Condition:
New
$20.00
$18.17
Sale 9%
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ?Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and People One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 ?rave and nuanced . . . an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.??he New York Times ?mmensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.??he Wall Street Journal Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen? haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand?nd fail to understand?ental illness. When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys were best friends and keen competitors, and, when they both got into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite. Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. But all wasn? as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Michael was still battling delu?ions when he traded his halfway house for Yale Law School. Featured in The New York Times as a role model genius, he sold a memoir, with film rights to Ron Howard. But then Michael, in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, stabbed his girlfriend Carrie to death and became a front-page story of an entirely different sort. Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen? magnificent and heartbreaking account of good intentions and tragic outcomes whose significance will echo widely.
| Author: Jonathan Rosen |
| Publisher: Penguin Group |
| Publication Date: Apr 16, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 577 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 014313289X |
| ISBN-13: 9780143132899 |
The Best Minds : A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
$20.00
$18.17
Sale 9%
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ?Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and People One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 ?rave and nuanced . . . an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.??he New York Times ?mmensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.??he Wall Street Journal Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen? haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand?nd fail to understand?ental illness. When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys were best friends and keen competitors, and, when they both got into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite. Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. But all wasn? as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Michael was still battling delu?ions when he traded his halfway house for Yale Law School. Featured in The New York Times as a role model genius, he sold a memoir, with film rights to Ron Howard. But then Michael, in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, stabbed his girlfriend Carrie to death and became a front-page story of an entirely different sort. Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen? magnificent and heartbreaking account of good intentions and tragic outcomes whose significance will echo widely.
| Author: Jonathan Rosen |
| Publisher: Penguin Group |
| Publication Date: Apr 16, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 577 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 014313289X |
| ISBN-13: 9780143132899 |
Related Products
Sale 16%
Whitechapel Productions
44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy and Shattered Love
$15.00
$12.63
Sale 5%
Sale 7%
Sale 6%
