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1471160726
Book:Chase the rainbow: [one man's journey with mental health told by the woman who loved him]; Poorna Bell:2018 Book Chase the rainbow: [one man's journey with mental health told by the woman who loved him]; Poorna Bell
Chase the rainbow: [one man's journey with mental health told by the woman who loved him]; Poorna Bell
Author: Bell, Poorna
Year: 2018
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: 362.28092
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2018
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781471160721
Notes:
Originally published: 2017
An honest yet uplifting account of a woman's life affected (but not defined) by the suicide of her husband and the deadly paradox of modern-day masculinity. Punk rocker, bird nerd and book lover Rob Bell had a full, happy life. He had a loving wife, a big-bottomed dog named Daisy and a career as a respected science journalist. But beneath the carefully cultivated air of machoism and the need to help other people, he struggled with mental health and a drug addiction that began as a means to self-medicate his illness. In 2015, he ended his life in New Zealand on a winter's night. But what happened? How did a middle-class Catholic boy from the suburbs, who had an ocean of people who loved him, and a brain the size of a planet, end up dying alone by his own hand?
Extent: 293 pages, 20 cm, pbk
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Absolutely gut wrenching, a very difficult read but beautifully written.
01/03/20
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