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Killing The Black Dog
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Author : Les Murray
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2015-09-29
Killing The Black Dog written by Les Murray and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-29 with Poetry categories.
In 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the "Black Dog" (as he calls it) ruled his life. He raged at his wife and children. He ducked a parking ticket on grounds of insanity, and begged a police officer to shoot him rather than arrest him. For days on end he lay in despair, a state in which, as he puts it precisely, "you feel beneath help." Killing the Black Dog is Murray's recollection of those awful days: brief, pointed, wise, and full of beauty in the way of his poetry. The prose text—delicately balanced between personal and informative—gives a glimpse of the imprint that depression can leave on a life. The accompanying poems show their roots in his crisis—a crisis from which, he reports toward the close of this poignant book, he has fully recovered. "My thinking is no longer jammed and sooty with resentment," he recalls. "I no longer wear only stretch-knit clothes and drawstring pants. I no longer come down with bouts of weeping or reasonless exhaustion. And I no longer seek rejection in a belief that only bitterly conceded praise is reliable." Killing the Black Dog is a crucial chapter in the life of an outstanding poet.
Killing The Black Dog
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Author : Les A. Murray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Killing The Black Dog written by Les A. Murray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Depression, Mental categories.
'Killing the Black Dog' is Les Murray's brave account of a struggle with depression, accompanied by poems that inhabit that troubled space, drawn from the full trajectory of his work. In this revised edition, he notes that the title was premature - he had mistaken remission for cure, and believed himself free of the illness which had twice taken over his life. Here he describes a relapse.
Short Black 10 Killing The Black Dog
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Author : Les Murray
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2015-09-23
Short Black 10 Killing The Black Dog written by Les Murray and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with Self-Help categories.
On the last day of 1985, I went home to live in Bunyah, the farming valley I had left some twenty-nine years earlier. My wife and our younger children followed two days later … at last I was going home, to care for my father in his old age and to live in the place from which I'd always felt displaced. What I didn't know was that I was heading home in order to go mad. Killing the Black Dog is Les Murray's frank and courageous account of his struggle with depression. Since this essay first appeared, hosts of readers have drawn insight from his account of the disease, its social effects and its origins in his family's history. Murray describes how patches of daylight now balance out those of darkness in his life.
Killing The Black Dog
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Author : Les A. Murray
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2009
Killing The Black Dog written by Les A. Murray and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Killing the Black Dog is Les Murray's courageous account of his struggle with depression, accompanied by poems specially selected by the author. Since the first edition appeared in 1997, hosts of readers have drawn insight from his account of the disease, its social effects and its origins in his family's history. As Murray writes in this revised and updated edition, the title was premature. He had mistaken a remission for a cure, and thought himself freed from the severe depressive illness which had twice invaded his life. Now, in a new afterword, he describes a relapse, but also shares some of the fruits of his further contemplation. He shows gratitude for help previously unacknowledged, and describes how patches of daylight now balance out those of darkness in his life. A further half dozen poems have been added, reflecting a more complex understanding of depression and its role in the lives of its sufferers.
Killing The Black Dog
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Author : Les A. Murray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Killing The Black Dog written by Les A. Murray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the poignant Killing the Black Dog, the world renowned poet Les Murray writes more frankly than ever before of his life, his persistent depression, and their relation to his writing.A tale of terrible suffering, imbued with an urgent vision of the worth of the traditional Christian values which permeate his poetry, Murray's story reaffirms his quiet faith in the value of human life, work and the family in the face of personal adversity.Illustrated by poems Murray has specially selected from his work of the past 30 years, Killing the Black Dog is both a courageous personal statement and a fascinating insight into the workings of a poet's mind.
I Had A Black Dog
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Author : Matthew Johnstone
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-01
I Had A Black Dog written by Matthew Johnstone and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Self-Help categories.
'I Had a Black Dog says with wit, insight, economy and complete understanding what other books take 300 pages to say. Brilliant and indispensable.' - Stephen Fry 'Finally, a book about depression that isn't a prescriptive self-help manual. Johnston's deftly expresses how lonely and isolating depression can be for sufferers. Poignant and humorous in equal measure.' Sunday Times There are many different breeds of Black Dog affecting millions of people from all walks of life. The Black Dog is an equal opportunity mongrel. It was Winston Churchill who popularized the phrase Black Dog to describe the bouts of depression he experienced for much of his life. Matthew Johnstone, a sufferer himself, has written and illustrated this moving and uplifting insight into what it is like to have a Black Dog as a companion and how he learned to tame it and bring it to heel.
Black Dog
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Author : Stuart Woods
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-08-02
Black Dog written by Stuart Woods and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-02 with Fiction categories.
Stone Barrington must battle a nasty opponent in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. After returning home from a treacherous adventure, Stone Barrington is all too happy to settle back down in his New York City abode. But when he's introduced to a glamorous socialite with a staggering inheritance, Stone realizes his days are about to be anything but quiet. As it turns out, Stone's intriguing new companion has some surprisingly familiar ties and other far more sinister ones—including a nefarious enemy who gets too close for comfort. When it becomes clear that this miscreant will stop at nothing to get what he wants, and will endanger all whom Stone holds dear, Stone must step in to protect his friends and prevent a dangerous madman from wreaking havoc across the city.
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time
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Author : Mark Haddon
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2004-05-18
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time written by Mark Haddon and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-18 with Fiction categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world. “Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect.... Suspenseful and harrowing.” —The New York Times Book Review Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.
The Devil Is A Black Dog
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Author : Sándor Jászberényi
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2015-10-21
The Devil Is A Black Dog written by Sándor Jászberényi and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-21 with Fiction categories.
‘I don’t regret anything, really. I never wanted to live a sensible life … I didn’t want a sensible death either.’ War-torn Africa, a Middle East in crisis, and post-Soviet Eastern Europe form the backdrop to the stories told in The Devil Is a Black Dog — stories based on the extraordinary experiences of acclaimed photojournalist Sándor Jászberényi. From Cairo to the Gaza Strip, from Benghazi to Budapest, his characters contemplate the meaning of home, love, family, and friendship in the face of brutality. Immersed in the societies he reports on and heedless in the face of war and revolution, Jászberényi observes mothers, martyrs, soldiers, and lovers who must confront the extremes of contemporary experience. In spare, evocative prose, he combines fact and fiction to create a profoundly true portrait of the humanity behind the headlines. PRAISE FOR SÁNDOR JÁSZBERÉNYI ‘Unforgettable … an indispensable volume that helps us to remember and regard some of the greatest ruptures of our time.’ The Sydney Morning Herald ‘Extraordinary … Searingly truthful.’ The Independent
Shoot The Damn Dog
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Author : Sally Brampton
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-08-01
Shoot The Damn Dog written by Sally Brampton and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Shoot the Damn Dog blasts the stigma of depression as a character flaw and confronts the illness Winston Churchill called 'the black dog', a condition that humiliates, punishes and isolates its sufferers. It is a personal account of a journey through (and out of) severe depression as well as being a practical book, offering ideas about what might help. With its raw, understated eloquence, it will speak volumes to anyone whose life has been haunted by depression, as well as offering help and understanding to those whose loved ones suffer from this terrifying condition.