Research Catalog

Title

Sharp : a memoir / David Fitzpatrick.

Author

Fitzpatrick, David

Publication

New York, NY : William Morrow, [2012]

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Details

Description

354 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"Sharp is the story of a young man who began his life with a loving family and great promise for the future. But in his early twenties, David Fitzpatrick became so consumed by mental illness it sent him into a frenzy of cutting himself with razor blades. In this shocking and often moving book, he vividly describes the rush this act gave him, the fleeting euphoric high that seemed to fill the spaces in the rest of his life. It started a difficult battle from which he would later emerge triumphant and spiritually renewed."--Jacket.

Subject

• Fitzpatrick, David > Mental health
• Fitzpatrick, David, 1965- > Mental health
• Fitzpatrick, David
• Cutting (Self-mutilation)
• Self-mutilation
• Self-injurious behavior
• Mentally ill > United States > Biography
• Coupures cutanées (Automutilation)
• Automutilation
• Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > États-Unis > Biographies
• Mental health
• Mentally ill
• United States

Genre/Form

• Autobiography
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Autobiographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-354).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Family history -- Relative innocence -- Being watched -- The Four Pricks of the Apocalypse -- A reprieve of sorts -- Disintegrating in Boston -- "Club Med for the brain" -- First sight and Holly's emergence -- The life of Maddy and continued submersion -- Flirting with hope in Kansas -- Lost and adrift everywhere -- Just breathe -- A redemptive chat -- First night out.

ISBN

• 9780062064028
• 0062064029

LCCN

2013426756

OCLC

• 757483984
• SCSB-12372141

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library