Reasons to Stay Alive (eBook)

Matt Haig (Autor)

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2015 | Main
184 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
9781782115090 (ISBN)

Infos

10th anniversary edition, revised and updated with a new introduction from the authorTHE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONWHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE?Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. It has helped millions of people do the same. Moving, funny and even joyous, these are the lessons Matt learned. His reasons to stay alive.

Autor

Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and six highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been published in over forty languages. @matthaig1 | matthaig.com

Rezensionen

Full of wisdoms and warmth

Fascinating and beautifully written

Matt Haig is a marvellous writer: limpid; tender; passionate. In this memoir (and it's short, barely 200 pages long), he manages to articulate, both the bleakness of depression and the means of dealing with it, little by little, day by day, without ever sounding maudlin, or self-indulgent, or preachy. For everyone who has ever felt the snap of the black dog's teeth, this book is wise, funny, affirming and redemptive. Sometimes depression can be like falling into a wordless pit. Matt Haig finds the words. And he says them for all of us

Reasons to Stay Alive is wonderful. I read it in one sitting. Touching, funny, thought-provoking, with a huge heart. It should be read by anyone who has suffered, or known someone who has suffered (i.e.. everyone)

A really great read, and essential to our collective well-being

Warm and engaging, and shot through with humour . . . a valuable contribution to the conversation

Brilliant and salutary . . . should be on prescription

A life-saving book

For anyone who has faced the black dog, or felt despair, this marvellous book is a real comfort, dealing sympathetically with depression, written with candour and from first-hand experience. I think it is a small masterpiece. It might even save lives

Brings a difficult and sensitive subject out of the darkness and into the light

A tender, candid, inspiring book about depression

I feel like someone else in the world understands me now. I feel a bit less alone, a bit less scared, a bit less guilty and anxious and burdened

Thoughtful, honest and incredibly insightful

Matt Haig is astounding

A heart-breaking account of a young man experiencing debilitating depression but comes with a surprising light touch

The amount of passages I've underlined is a real testament to his skills as a writer

Quite simply brilliant

Maybe the most important book I've read this year

Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin

A life-affirming and quietly joyful read

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.3.2015
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Schlagworte: a grief observed • Andy Burrows album • Anxiety • Atomic Habits • Barcelona • cs lewis • Depression • Depression Frazzled Ruby Wax Life Changing Magic Depression Anxiety Mental Health #inthemind in the mind low mood suicide • dr julie smith • Everything You Need • fearne cotton • Feel the fear • frazzled • how not to die • How to win friends and influence people • inspiring • #inthemind • in the mind • inthemind • Joan Didion • Life Changing Magic • low mood • Mental Health • Mental Health Awareness • Millie Marotta • Mind Management • quiet • ruby wax • Self Help • Stephen Fry • Suicide • The Alchemist • the Brain • The Humans • The Power of Now • The Secret • thinking fast and slow
• ISBN-13: 9781782115090 / 9781782115090