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As a man lives
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Image not available
Rare Books
"This book is about an event that didn't quite take place: my own suicide. Over and over I tried to kill myself, specific acts accompanied by the mounting use of alcohol. ... The trend culminated in the events described in this book. ... The first part is a record of my despair, and at the same time an attempt to exorcise it. ... The second part of the book was written some seven or eight months later and views all of this confusion from the other end of the telescope. It is a record of synthesis, of assembly. Where there was chaos, there is now a pattern. ... I have written about what happened to me because it sheds some light on the processes of mental illness and of suicidal thinking, and we need a lot more light in that still dimly-illuminated room. More important, however, is my hope that somewhere, somehow, my story will give that extra measure of courage to some person struggling in the awful waters of despair"--From preface, dated April 1975.
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