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Stalking Irish Madness Stalking Irish Madness Stalking Irish Madness (2008)

by Patrick Tracey(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0553905597 (ISBN13: 9780553905595)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Bantam

review 1: Fourth-genre memoir in which Tracey travels to Ireland and finds that his schizophrenia-laden family tree hails from an area in Ireland where this this many times the national (or American average), as well as the origin location of many Irish legends involving faeries, talking wells and other things that just might be the schizophrenia talking, as well as one of the areas most tragically blighted by the potato famine, possibly exacerbating the inbreeding and the onset of the disorder. None of this is medically entirely kosher, but extremely interesting personal theory.
review 2: I couldn't put this book down for the first part of it, his Irish-American family's plight with schizophrenia, heartbreaking. Then the author as an adult goes on his own journey to I... morereland, to figure things out,understand the roots of his family's schizophrenia, and here is where it starts to get muddled and directionless. He meets with all kinds of people, some who help him understand and others who don't, it becomes a weird travelogue as he tents down on campgrounds and rides around in a van. However, these are his own experiences, who am I to be critical? As a read, though, it loses all the focus and emotional connection from then on. less

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