The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Subtitle: A Novel
By: by Janice Galloway.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Normal, IL
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781564780461
Subjects: Women teachers -- Fiction.; Depression, Mental -- Fiction.; Scotland -- Fiction.
Description: "This inventive first novel explores the widespread problem of female depression. A 27-year-old drama teacher named Joy Stone is losing her grip on the world. The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture the narrator, who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental death of her illict lover, but on herself. She reads horoscopes, plucks hairs, holds conversations inside and outside herself. A terrible memory tries to unfold but is resisted.

Family and friends take on monstrous or pitiful guises; food threatens to become a major character. Clutching at the wrong things, the trick is to find those that let life go on. As things seen, things bought, and things said become obsessions, so the author conjures up the homely or horrifying world of litter in which the reader, like the heroine, lives."--BOOK JACKET.