Angelhead
Subtitle: My Brother's Descent into Madness
Publisher: Crown
Published: November 7, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780609606261
First sentence: My brother saw the face of God.
Description: "Set in Tidewater, Virginia, in the 1980s and early 1990s, Angelhead documents the violent, drug-addled, schizophrenic descent of the author's brother, Michael. Commencing with Michael's first psychotic break at age 14 - high on acid, seeing God in his suburban bedroom window - through a series of petty crimes, bizarre disappearances, and suicide attempts to the shocking crime that landed him in the psychiatric wing of a maximum security prison, Angelhead enables us to witness firsthand, as never before, the fragmenting of a mind and a family."--Jacket.