Lying (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Lauren Slater
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Memoirs
- Time of Work: 1970’s-1990’s
- Setting: Boston, Massachusetts
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: 1970’s, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, 1980’s, New England, Mental illness, Truth, Truthfulness and falsehood, Boston, 1990’s, Massachusetts
- Locales: Boston, MA
Lauren Slater is the author of two previous memoirs about mental illness. In Welcome to My Country (1996), Slater described her experiences as a psychologist working with severely afflicted mental patients and revealed that she also had suffered from mental illness. In Prozac Diary (1998), Slater told how drug therapy had allowed her to overcome her symptoms and begin to lead a normal life. In Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Slater reaches back even further into her past to explore her childhood and the beginnings of her experience with mental illness; however, in...
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