Happy (Paperback)

His freshman year of college, Alex Lemon was supposed to be the star catcher on the Macalester College baseball team. He was the boy getting every girl, the hard-partying kid everyone called Happy. In the spring of 1997, he had his first stroke. For two years Lemon coped with his deteriorating health by sinking deeper into alcohol and drug abuse. His charming and carefree exterior masked his self-destructive and sometimes cruel behavior as he endured two more brain bleeds and a crippling depression. After undergoing brain surgery, he is nursed back to health by his free-spirited artist mother, who once again teaches him to stand on his own.
Alive with unexpected humor and sensuality, "Happy "is a hypnotic self-portrait of a young man confronting the wreckage of his own body; it is also the deeply moving story of a mother's redemptive and healing powers. Alex Lemon's Technicolor sentences pop and sing as he writes about survival--of the body and of the human spirit.

General

Imprint:	Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	October 2010
Authors:	Alex Lemon
Dimensions:	203 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-4165-5025-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4165-5025-9
Barcode:	9781416550259

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