Committed by Suzanne Scanlon - ISBN: 9781399804844
Paperback
Loss, madness, and literature: A woman reclaims her narrative.

Committed

A Memoir of Finding Meaning in Madness

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    13 May 2025

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Summary

‘A deep, sometimes harrowing book about loss, grief, and the way literary representations of mental illness shaped Scanlon’s experience of her own life’

‘Visceral, raw and tender, this candid and timely memoir is, at heart, a love-letter to the profound and redemptive power of literature’

‘An immensely talented writer, at her finest, cutting through propriety and convention to reach what is essential, meaningful, real’

When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399804844
ISBN-10:1399804847
Author:Suzanne Scanlon
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:John Murray Publishers Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:13 May 2025
Weight:260g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 28mm
About The Author

Suzanne Scanlon

Suzanne Scanlon is the author of two works of fiction: Promising Young Women (Dorothy, 2012) and Her 37th Year, An Index (Noemi Press, 2015). Her writing has appeared in Granta, BOMB Magazine, Iowa Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She teaches creative writing. Committed is her first work of non-fiction.

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