Mayhem: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (868 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MRWDYVL |
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| Number of Pages | : | 133 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Now, writing with singular clarity and restraint, Hans’ sister, the editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing, tries to make sense of what happened. Rausing. The couple had struggled with drug addiction for years, often under the glare of tabloid headlines. And who can help their families, so implicated in the self-destruction of the addict? Who can help when the very notion of ‘help’ becomes synonymous with an exercise of power; a familial police state; an end to freedom, in the addict’s mind?” An eloquent and timely attempt to understand the conundrum of addictio
. She is the author of two previous books: History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia, and Everything is Wonderful, which was short-listed for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. She lives in London with her husband, film and theatre producer Eric Abraham. Sigrid Rausing is the editor of Granta magazine and the publisher of Granta Books. She has a PhD i
I was impressed and moved.” —A. Sigrid Rausing’s disarming and masterful book is an important addition to the literature of addiction. It is a fierce, lyrical, and lucid memoir that asks agonizing questions about guilt, innocence, and judgment and reminds us how difficult it can be to untangle one from the other.” —Siri Hustvedt “Mayhem is astonishing. Her deftly layered observations about how one can be both knowing and not knowing capture a parent’s innate sense of a child’s being in danger; one sibling’s desperate attempts to save another; and a deeply private family who find themselves suddenly exposed. Written in elegiac, lyrical prose, Mayhem is deeply passionate in its impossible attempt to adduce a redeeming vitality from an agonizing chaos. M. This is a brave, elegant, in