Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad
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- Synopsis
- In 1975, one year after Patty Hearst and her captors robbed Hibernia National Bank, a second kidnapping took place far from the glare of the headlines. Virginia Holman's mother, in the thrall of psychosis, spirited her two daughters to a cottage on the Virginia Peninsula, painted the windows black, and set up the house as a MASH unit for a secret war. A war that never came. The family -- captive to her mother's schizophrenia and a legal system that refused to intervene -- remained there for more than three years. "What sets this book apart," theHartford Courantobserved, "is Virginia's voice. . . brave, smart, tough. " Reviewers nationwide have praised Holman's "riveting," "endearing," and "wryly humorous" story of a young girl caught in the whirlwind of madness -- a girl who chooses a brainwashed heiress as her role model. Holman's memoir vividly and brilliantly evokes the interior worlds of the sane and the insane and the delicate membrane in between. An essential exploration of identity, captivity, and love,Rescuing Patty Hearstwill inspire readers' faith in the resilience of one family's spirit to survive and thrive even in the direst of circumstances.
- Copyright:
- 2001
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780743258456
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780743255493
- Publisher:
- Simon & Schuster
- Date of Addition:
- 07/24/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Xo Editions
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Health, Mind and Body, Psychology
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.