The broken places
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Joseph McBride
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781943784127
Subjects: Psychiatric hospital patients; Biography; Children of alcoholics
Description: "In The Broken Places, Joseph McBride, an internationally acclaimed American cultural historian, recalls his troubled youth in the Midwest during the 1960s. Searingly immediate and yet reflective, this is the author's memoir of his breakdown as a teenager and triumphant recovery. It gives an unsparing look at physical and psychological abuse, family dysfunction and addiction, sexual repression, and Catholic guilt. And at its heart, this is a haunting, often joyous love story," --