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NONFICTION 1 -The Game of the Foxes, Farago (2) 2- The Boys of Summer, Ka/in (1) 3- A World Beyond, Montgomery (4) 4- Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bach (3) 5- Open Marriage, Nena & George O'Neill (5) 6- The Washington Pay-Off, Win/er-Berger (6) 7- The Savage God, Alvarez (8) 8- Report from Engine Co. 82, Smith (10) 9- O Jerusalem, Co///ns & Lapierre 10- The Truth About Weight Control, Dr. Neil Solomon with Sally Sheppard...
...Alvarez's closing account of his own suicide attempt serves little purpose, beyond proving that he, too, is a member of the club. He recalls how his parents used to talk of putting their heads in the oven and adds that for years he went around repeating "Iwishiweredead" to himself. But why? And how did he feel as the final, slow, nightmarish slide toward darkness took hold of him in his 31st year? Did he do anything so prosaic as hide the pills in those spare moments of common sense when he wondered, as he must have wondered, what...
...Defoe was once put in the stocks in 18th century London for writing a treatise against the political power of the church. He promptly penned a poem about the experience and had it hawked in the very street where he was taking his punishment. A similar entrepreneurial taint clouds Alvarez's effort. He makes a fine brisk guide to changing historic attitudes toward suicide: Roman Stoics practiced it gladly; romantic poets preached it madly; the early Christians pursued de facto suicide by avidly seeking martyrdom, until in A.D. 412 Saint Augustine declared the act a mortal sin. Alvarez also...
...After Alvarez it is almost a pleasure to turn to something as thematically underwrought as German-trained Philosopher Jacques Choron's dry survey course in suicidology. Whether or not this is the age of death, Choron points out, the U.S. suicide rate has not increased for more than 20 years. (Since World War II it has hovered near eleven per 100,000 population each year.) Though suicide is listed as the tenth largest killer in the U.S., even that fact is misleading since it accounts for only 1% of all yearly deaths. Choron spent years working in suicide-prevention...
...Game of the Foxes, Farago (3) 3-Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bach (5) 4-A World Beyond, Montgomery (2) 5-Open Marriage, Nena and George O'Neill (8) 6-The Washington Pay-Off, Winter-Berger (4) 7-Eleanor and Franklin, Lash (10) 8-The Savage God, Alvarez 9-The Truth About Weight Control, Dr. Neil Solomon with Sally Sheppard 10-Report from Engine Co. 82, Smith...