
He Wanted the Moon
The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him
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Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony Kushner
A Washington Post Best Book of 2015
A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own. Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the late 1920s and 1930s. Early in his career, ahead of his time, he grew fascinated with identifying the biochemical root of manic depression, just as he began to suffer from it himself. By the time the results of his groundbreaking experiments were published, Dr. Baird had been institutionalized multiple times, his medical license revoked, and his wife and daughters estranged. He later received a lobotomy and died from a consequent seizure, his research incomplete, his achievements unrecognized.
Mimi Baird grew up never fully knowing this story, as her family went silent about the father who had been absent for most of her childhood. Decades later, a string of extraordinary coincidences led to the recovery of a manuscript which Dr. Baird had worked on throughout his brutal institutionalization, confinement, and escape. This remarkable document, reflecting periods of both manic exhilaration and clear-headed health, presents a startling portrait of a man who was a uniquely astute observer of his own condition, struggling with a disease for which there was no cure, racing against time to unlock the key to treatment before his illness became impossible to manage.
Fifty years after being told her father would forever be “ill” and “away,” Mimi Baird set off on a quest to piece together the memoir and the man. In time her fingers became stained with the lead of the pencil he had used to write his manuscript, as she devoted herself to understanding who he was, why he disappeared, and what legacy she had inherited. The result of his extraordinary record and her journey to bring his name to light is He Wanted the Moon, an unforgettable testament to the reaches of the mind and the redeeming power of a determined heart.
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- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America's finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these men were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable Feast.
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Great Narration!!!!!! Great story about 20 Century make writer who suffer with alcoholism. If you like this topic and want more
- De Pamela Abbey en 04-25-21
De: Olivia Laing
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Labyrinths
- Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis
- De: Catrine Clay
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. But the strict rules of proper Swiss society at the beginning of the 20th century dictated that a woman of Emma's stature - one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland - travel to Paris to "finish" her education, to prepare for marriage to a suitable man. Engaged to the son of one of her father's wealthy business colleagues, Emma's conventional and predictable life was upended when she met Carl Jung.
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Carl plays center stage
- De Sparrowhawk en 12-23-16
De: Catrine Clay
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Speak
- A Novel
- De: Louisa Hall
- Narrado por: Suzan Crowley, Christopher Ashman, Adrienne Rusk, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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In a narrative that spans geography and time, from the Atlantic Ocean in the 17th century to a correctional institute in Texas in the near future, and told from the perspectives of five very different characters, Speak considers what it means to be human and what it means to be less than fully alive.
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Like nothing else
- De Anonymous User en 06-22-17
De: Louisa Hall
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Where the Past Begins
- A Writer's Memoir
- De: Amy Tan
- Narrado por: Amy Tan
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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Moving from her childhood in Oakland and growing up with her Chinese parents through her success as a novelist, Amy Tan delves into her creative interests in music, the paralysis of beginning a new project, journal writing, and travelling. Where the Past Begins chronicles the making of a writer. With characteristic humor and poignant observation, Tan weaves a nontraditional introspective narrative that is as complex and vibrant as this beloved American novelist's fiction.
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Narration Issues
- De Sara en 12-14-17
De: Amy Tan
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Driving on the Rim
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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The unforgettable voyager of this dark picaresque is I. B. "Berl" Pickett, M.D., whose die was probably cast the moment his mother thought to name him after Irving Berlin. Other insults piled on apace thereafter: the spasms of Pentecostal Sunday worship; the social debilitation of following his parents' itinerant rug-shampooing business; the erotic initiation at the hands of his aunt. It's hard to imagine what would have become of him had he not gone to medical school.
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Delightful
- De Roy en 01-05-11
De: Thomas McGuane
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
- De: Hisham Matar
- Narrado por: Hisham Matar
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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When Hisham Matar was a 19-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime's most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison in Libya. Hisham would never see him again. But he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. "Hope," as he writes, "is cunning and persistent." Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Qaddafi, the prison cells were empty, and there was no sign of Jaballa Matar. Hisham returned with his mother and wife to the homeland he never thought he'd go back to again.
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Touching memoir. Consider hard copy
- De Joschka Philipps en 02-22-18
De: Hisham Matar
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Charms for the Easy Life
- De: Kaye Gibbons
- Narrado por: Kate Fleming
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that often beats a path to their door. And they are protected by the eccentric wisdom and muscular love of the remarkable matriarch Charlie Kate, a solid, uncompromising, self-taught healer who treats everything from boils to broken bones to broken hearts.
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So Lovely!
- De Doodle slave en 01-04-17
De: Kaye Gibbons
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Flesh Wounds
- De: Richard Glover
- Narrado por: Richard Glover
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family...Richard Glover's favourite dinner-party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?' It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed toy collector.
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Such a Meaningful Reflection
- De Awarenessing en 11-28-15
De: Richard Glover
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The Reader
- De: Bernhard Schlink, Carol Janeway - translator
- Narrado por: Campbell Scott
- Duración: 4 h y 16 m
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When he falls ill on his way home from school, 15-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover--then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.
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Dysfunctional
- De Ella en 12-09-08
De: Bernhard Schlink, y otros
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Because I Come from a Crazy Family
- The Making of a Psychiatrist
- De: Edward M. Hallowell
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
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When Edward M. Hallowell was 11, a voice out of nowhere told him he should become a psychiatrist. A mental health professional of the time would have called this psychosis. But young Edward (Ned) took it in stride, despite not quite knowing what "psychiatrist" meant. With a psychotic father, an alcoholic mother, an abusive stepfather, and two so-called learning disabilities of his own, Ned was accustomed to unpredictable behaviour from those around him and to a mind he felt he couldn't always control.
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Love and connection permeates through this book!
- De Steve Steinmetz en 06-29-18
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The Pendulum
- A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
- De: Julie Lindahl
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 9 h
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This powerful memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' role in the Third Reich, as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the story - the unclaimed guilt that devours a family through the generations - emerges an unflinching will to learn the truth.
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Exceptional
- De Jean en 01-14-19
De: Julie Lindahl
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Marina and Lee
- The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- De: Priscilla Johnson McMillan
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray, Joseph Finder
- Duración: 24 h y 13 m
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Marina and Lee is one of the best and truest audiobooks about the Kennedy assassination. Priscilla Johnson McMillan came to the story with a unique knowledge of the two main characters. In the 1950s she knew Kennedy well for a time when he was hospitalized with Addison's disease. She talked to him frequently, brought him books, knew his wife, and formed a strong opinion of the sort of man he was. What is astonishing is that she also knew Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Now I know why he did it
- De Rodd en 06-09-14
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Mother Daughter Me
- A Memoir
- De: Katie Hafner
- Narrado por: Katie Hafner
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner's remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions. Dreaming of a "year in Provence" with her mother, Katie urges Helen to move to San Francisco to live with her and Zoe, Katie's teenage daughter. Katie and Zoe had become a mother-daughter team, strong enough, Katie thought, to absorb the arrival of a 77-year-old woman set in her ways....
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Listen and be swept away!
- De Barbara Quick en 06-02-22
De: Katie Hafner
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The Great Failure
- A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth
- De: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrado por: Natalie Goldberg
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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"The Great Failure is a boundless embrace, leaving nothing out. I wanted to learn the truth, to become whole. If I could touch the dark nature in someone else, I could know it in myself." So begins Natalie Goldberg in this candid exploration of her life. Here, Goldberg makes sense of primary relationships between father and daughter, teacher and student, and exemplifies the accomplishment available when creating daily writing practices.
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If you have been let down by anyone. Listen
- De Mia en 04-19-18
De: Natalie Goldberg
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- 12-13-21
fascinating
A captivating and fascinating true story about early mental health facilities and the inward look into one's unhealthy mind.
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- 05-12-22
Heartbreaking glimpse into the life of a bipolar man in the 1940s
Ms. Baird’s extensive research through her father’s papers as a way to get to know him after his death in a way she was never able to in life sketches out a troubled life, revealing horrifying conditions of treatment of the mentally ill in the 1940s. Fascinating and heartbreaking by turns, Ms. Baird’s book braids together her memories, her father’s account of his time in and out of mental hospitals, and the medical records of said hospitals to create a multi-dimensional story and vivid insight into life with mental illness. The book is good, the audio recording features three narrators, one of whom was too over-dramatic for my tastes.
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- Christian Fullerton Amendola
- 05-08-19
Lyrical Narration
One of the top memoirs I've read this year.
The author brought life to scenes as if I were watching a play.
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- SBey
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Solid, fantastic read.
Narrators brought so much life to a story begging to be told. So heartfelt and real to the end.
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