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...SEASON IN HELL by PERCY KNAUTH 111 pages. Harper...
...with a doctor or a friend, or simply repeating to oneself that "tomorrow is another day." Many people push a burden of inexplicable sadrtess through half a lifetime like Sisyphus with his famous stone, and try to believe that they are happy just the same. But when Author Percy Knauth fell into a depression, none of these things worked...
...Knauth is a veteran correspondent, editor and writer (the New York Times, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED). Returning from Europe a few years ago, he seemed, at 57, to be sitting on top of the world; he had a wife, a young family and a brightlooking future as a freelancer on a series of long-term projects. Yet he kept awakening (if he managed to sleep at all) with a sense of impending doom...
This book is a brief account of what happened before and after that moment. It suffers slightly from overwriting. But Knauth can be forgiven his occasional excesses because he confronts accurately and candidly a highly personal sickness that is too little understood, and writes informatively about its treatment. Word for word, A Season in Hell is one of the best-and most encouraging-books on mental illness yet written...
Other Harvard entrants are Larry Zeitlin, Christy Knauth, Lee Cunningham, Al Masters, Steve Sharp, Bob Sweet, Chris Rutgers, Nate Berkowitz, Bill Engstrom, and Max Emmert of the B School...