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David Fitzpatricks Sharp is an extraordinary memoira fascinating, disturbing look into the mind of a man who, in his early 20s, began cutting himself due to a severe mental illness. A beautifully written treatment of a powerful subject, Fitzpatrickwhose symptoms included extreme depression and self-mutilationwrites movingly and honestly about his affliction and inspires readers with his courage, joining the literary ranks of Terri Cheney Manic, Augusten Burroughs Running with Scissors, Marya Hornbacher Wasted, and Susanna Kaysen Girl, Interrupted.A harrowing journey from self-destructive psychosis to a cautious re-emergence into the flickering sunshine of the sane world.Fitzpatrick writes about mental illness with the unsparing intensity of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton but also with the hard-won self-knowledge of William Styron, Kay Jamison, and other chroniclers of disease, recovery, and management.
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David Fitzpatrick was born in Dearborn, Michigan, grew up in Connecticut, graduated from Skidmore College, and earned his MFA degree from Fairfield University in 2011. A writer, he works at an auto dealership and is married to writer and graphic designer Amy Holmes. He lives in Middletown, Connecticut.
