An edition of Slackjaw (1999)

Slackjaw

Berkley trade pbk. ed.
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An edition of Slackjaw (1999)

Slackjaw

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It wasn't until he was in his early twenties that doctors discovered that Jim Knipfel's nearsightedness was the result of an untreatable rare genetic eye disease known as retinitis pigmentosa, which, they said, would leave him blind within a few short years. Furthermore, he was informed, it was an inoperable brain lesion that was causing the suicidal depression and emotional free-for-all he was experiencing.

Add to that a drinking problem, a marriage on the rocks, and a lack of any obvious job skills, and you have a young man on the fast track toward oblivion.

In an unpredictable, swift-paced, and stirring memoir, Knipfel maintains his absurdist perspective in recalling a life overrun with troubles of every variety. Along the way he introduces us to neurologists, newspaper editors, murderous punk rockers, optometrists, bartenders, petty thieves, genies, social workers, and friends and family who look on as an innocent young man from the Midwest is driven helplessly mad and becomes incurably blind.

It is an enthralling confessional about enduring, even laughing, in a world where seemingly nothing goes right, for anyone.

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Publisher
Berkley Books
Language
English
Pages
235

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Cover of: Slackjaw
Slackjaw
2000, Berkley Books
in English
Cover of: Slackjaw
Slackjaw: A memoir
February 7, 2000, Berkley Trade
in English
Cover of: Slackjaw
Slackjaw
2000, Berkley Books
in English - Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Cover of: Slackjaw
Slackjaw
1999, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, c1999.

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New York, N.Y
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
617.73

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 235 p. ;
Number of pages
235

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23013557M
Internet Archive
slackjaw00knip
ISBN 10
0425173305
OCLC/WorldCat
43694330
Library Thing
827308
Goodreads
125795

First Sentence

""SUICIDE HOTLINE?" the chipper young woman on the other end of the phone seemed to ask me when she answered."

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