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Rosen, Jonathan, 1963- -- Friends and associates.
Laudor, Michael.
Essayists -- United States -- Biography.
Schizophrenics -- United States -- Biography.
Male friendship -- United States.
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Rosen, Jonathan, 1963-
Rosen, Jonathan, 1963-
Rosen, Jonathan, 1963- -- Friends and associates.
Laudor, Michael.
Essayists -- United States -- Biography.
Schizophrenics -- United States -- Biography.
Male friendship -- United States.
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The best minds : a story of
friendship
, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions / Jonathan Rosen.
by
Rosen, Jonathan, 1963-
Penguin Press, 2023.
Call #:
921 R813b
Subjects
Rosen, Jonathan, 1963-
Rosen, Jonathan, 1963-
--
Friends and associates.
Laudor, Michael.
Essayists
--
United
States
--
Biography.
Schizophrenics
--
United
States
--
Biography.
Male
friendship
--
United
States
.
ISBN:
9781594206573 (hc.)
Description:
562 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Jonathan Rosen is the author of two novels: Eve’s Apple and Joy Comes in the Morning, and two non-fiction books: The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds and The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature. His essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous anthologies. He lives with his family in New York City.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor seemed destined to become inseparable. The boys, both children of college professors, grew up on the same street in intellectually vibrant homes shaped by ideas, liberal Jewish culture, the trauma of the Holocaust, and a shared love of basketball and standup comedy. But the two best friends were also keen competitors bearing the same great expectations, and when Michael and Jonathan both got into Yale, they seemed set to ascend to the heights of the American meritocratic elite. Leaving Jonathan behind, Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job for far more money than their parents had ever made. But all wasn't as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the fateful call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was institutionalized at a New York City psychiatric hospital where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He would stay there for nine months before transitioning to a halfway house. Facing the prospect of a life spent bagging groceries, Michael decided to play the one card left to him: just before his break, he had been accepted to Yale Law School, and now, against all odds, he planned to enroll. Still struggling mightily with schizophrenia, Michael made it through the top law school in the country. His extraordinary story soon made the front page of the New York Times; an agent sold his memoir to a major publisher for a large sum; Ron Howard swept in to acquire film rights, with Brad Pitt set to star. It was all a dream come true for Michael and his tirelessly supportive girlfriend Carrie. But then, the unimaginable happened: in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, Michael stabbed Carrie to death with a kitchen knife. To this day, Michael Laudor remains confined to a maximum-security forensic hospital in upstate New York. 'The Best Minds' is Jonathan Rosen's brilliant and heartbreaking account of what happened to Michael Laudor, and why. Exploring the dramatic transformation of American culture and of society's relationship to mental illness in the second half of the twentieth century, this is a story about the power and limits of the bonds of family,
friendship
, and community, the lure of the American dream and the promise of academic achievement. At times tender and hilarious, and at times harrowing and almost unbearably sad, the book is an extreme version of a story that is tragically familiar to all too many. In the hands of a writer of Jonathan Rosen's gifts and dedication, its significance will echo widely."--From publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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