Rabbits For Food

Author: Binnie Kirschenbaum

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  • : $27.99 AUD
  • : 9781788164658
  • : Serpent's Tail
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  • : August 2019
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  • : Binnie Kirschenbaum
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  • : hardback with dustjacket
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  • : English
  • : very good
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Barcode 9781788164658
9781788164658

Description

It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Bunny -an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer-fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital, where she refuses all modes of recommended treatment. Instead, she passes the time chronicling the lives of her fellow "lunatics" and writing a novel about what brought her there. Her story is a brilliant and brutally funny dive into the disordered mind of a woman who sees the world all too clearly. Propelled by razor-sharp comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be at once impervious and raw. Rabbits for Food shows how art can lead us out of-or into-the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief. A bravura literary performance from one of America's finest writers.

Reviews

Bunny has a breakdown and finds herself in a psychiatric hospital where she documents her fellow patients in a hilarious and insightful style. Kirshenbaum makes you laugh out loud but also think about how we deal with mental health in real life.


Elisa, Book Grocer