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The Best Minds - A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions (Hardcover)
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The Best Minds - A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions (Hardcover)
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A novelist's gripping investigation of the forces that led his
childhood best friend from academic stardom to the psychiatric
hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved When
the Rosens moved to New Rochelle, New York in 1973, Jonathan Rosen
and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of professors,
the boys were best friends and fierce rivals who soon followed each
other to Yale University. Michael blazed through Yale in three
years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight
consulting job. Then one day, Jonathan received a devastating call:
Michael had suffered a psychotic break and was in the locked ward
of a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Michael
was still in hospital when he learned he'd been accepted to Yale
Law School, and living in a halfway house when he decided, against
all odds, to enroll. Still battling delusions, he managed to
graduate, and after his triumphant story was featured in The New
York Times, sold a memoir for a vast sum. Ron Howard bought film
rights, completing the dream for Michael and his tirelessly
supportive girlfriend Carrie, and Brad Pitt was set to star. But
then Michael, in the grip of psychosis, committed a horrific act
that made him a front-page story of an entirely different sort. The
Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen's powerful account of an American
tragedy, set in the final decades of the American century, an era
that coincided with the emptying out of state mental hospitals. It
is a story about the bonds of friendship, the price of delusion and
the mystery of identity. Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, The
Best Minds is both a beautifully rendered coming of age story and
an indictment of the profound neglect of mental illness in our
society.
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