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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Roberge, Rob, author.     Subjects     Roberge, Rob -- Mental health.     People with bipolar disorder -- United States -- Biography.     Drug addicts -- United States -- Biography.     Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States.     Drug abuse -- Treatment -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Roberge, Rob, author.       by title:      Liar [electronic res...         MARC Display

Liar [electronic resource] : a memoir / Rob Roberge. by Roberge, Rob, author. New York : Crown Publishers, c2016. Subjects Roberge, Rob -- Mental health.   People with bipolar disorder -- United States -- Biography.   Drug addicts -- United States -- Biography.   Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States.   Drug abuse -- Treatment -- United States. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=126F44F7-248A-4545-B179-2CA1F6F312AA This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=126f44f7-248a-4545-b179-2ca1f6f312aa&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{126F44F7-248A-4545-B179-2CA1F6F312AA}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780553448078 (electronic bk.) 0553448072 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (254 pages) Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "A darkly funny, intense memoir about mental illness, memory and storytelling, from an acclaimed novelist. When Rob Roberge 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, he sets out to (somewhat faithfully) record the most formative moments of his life--ranging from the brutal murder of his childhood girlfriend, to a diagnosis of rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, to opening for famed indie band Yo La Tengo at The Fillmore in San Francisco. 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 Liar twists and turns through Roberge's life, it turns the familiar story of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll on its head. Blackly comic and brutally frank, it offers a remarkable 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 scorched 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"-- "A middle-aged man finds out he may lose his memory and sets out to record his life of family strife, complicated personal relationships, and his substance abuse problems--faithfully and unfaithfully"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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