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		Roberge, Rob.

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		Roberge, Rob -- Mental health.
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		Roberge, Rob.
		Roberge, Rob -- Mental health.
		Autobiographical memory -- Biography.
		Recollection (Psychology) -- Biography.
		Manic-depressive persons -- Biography.
		Mental illness -- Biography.
		Drug abuse -- Biography.
		Drug addicts -- Biography.
		Creative writing (Higher education) -- Study and teaching -- Biography.
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Liar : a memoir / Rob Roberge.

by Roberge, Rob.

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Crown Publishers, c2016.

Roberge, Rob -- Mental health.

Autobiographical memory -- Biography.

Recollection (Psychology) -- Biography.

Manic-depressive persons -- Biography.

Mental illness -- Biography.

Drug abuse -- Biography.

Drug addicts -- Biography.

Creative writing (Higher education) -- Study and teaching -- Biography.

College teachers -- Biography.

Punk rock musicians -- Biography.

Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.

Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.

9780553448061 (hc.)

0553448064 (hc.)

254 pages ; 22 cm.

Cover of book includes simulated burn marks.

"An intense memoir about mental illness, memory and storytelling, from novelist and creative writing teacher Rob Roberge. When he learns that he's likely to have developed a progressive memory-eroding disease from years of hard living and frequent concussions, he is terrified by the prospect of becoming a walking shadow. In a desperate attempt to preserve his identity, sets out to record his memories of family strife, complicated personal relationships and substance abuse problems -- faithfully and unfaithfully -- ranging from the brutal murder of his childhood girlfriend to his diagnosis of bipolar disorder. But the process of trying to remember his past only exposes just how fragile the stories that lay at the heart of our self-conception really are. As the blackly comic and brutally frank story twists and turns through Roberge's life, it offers a portrait of a down and out existence cobbled together across the country, from musicians' crashpads around Boston, to seedy bars popular with sideshow freaks in Florida, to a painful moment of reckoning in the Wonder Valley desert of California. As Roberge struggles to keep addiction and mental illness from destroying the good life he has built in his better moments, he is forced to acknowledge the increasingly blurred line between the lies we tell others and the lies we tell ourselves. Rob Roberge is the author of four novels, most recently The Cost of Living (2013). He teaches creative writing and plays guitar and sings with the Los Angeles-based punk rock band the Urinals."--Provided by publisher.

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