One of These Things First
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (880 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1536618179 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 407 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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For listeners who love stories of self-transformation, One of These Things First is a fascinating memoir in the vein of Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted and Augusten Burroughs' Running with Scissors. From New York Times best-selling author Steven Gaines comes a wry and touching memoir of his trials as a gay teen at the famed Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. One of These Things First is a poignant reminiscence of a 15-year-old gay Jewish boy's unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother's Brooklyn bra-and-girdle store to Manhattan's infamous Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, whose alumni includes writers, poets, and madmen as well as Marilyn Monroe and best-selling author Steven Gaines. With its novelistic texture and unflagging narrative, this book is destined to become one of the great indelible works of the memoir genr. Gaines also takes the listener behind the walls of Payne Whitney - the "Harvard of psychiatric clinics", as Time magazine called it - populated by a captivating group of neur
Highly recommend One Of These Things First is fascinating, funny, heartbreaking, and inspiring. I laughed out loud more than once! This is not your usualmemoir. It features larger than life characters from movie stars to salesgirls in a bra and girdle store who all play a par. Intimacy is Crazy I read Steven Gaines' memoir during the hottest August I can remember - perhaps a parallel to his description of the August he spent in a famous NYC psychiatric facility. It made me feel a certain closeness to this sad young man, obviously brilliant, yet alon. beautifully written, gems of a memoir to come along carilynp Author Steven Gaines’ ONE OF THESE THINGS FIRST is one of the most compelling, beautifully written, gems of a memoir to come along. As a Jewish child growing up in Brooklyn in the 50s, Gaines is troubled from the get-go. He is aware that he is ‘di
. He's a co-founder of the Hamptons International Film Festival and lives in a small hamlet on the East End of Long Island. Steven Gaines is the author of Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons; The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan; Simply Hals
Gaines is a skilled humorist as well as a tender yet trenchant observer of human behavior and the social forces that so often control it." (New York Times Book Review)"A longtime journalist and artful chronicler of New York lives, Gaines’s look back at his own is shocking, funny, and sometimes shockingly funny. (James Lescene, writer of the Academy-award winning short film, Trevor)PRAISE FOR Philistines at The Hedgerow: “Such a cast of eccentrics hasn't been seen since Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” (Jay McInerney, The New Yorker)“Steven Gaines is a born storyteller…” (Dominick Dunne)“Breezy, irreverent, amusingreplete with scandal, scurrilous characters, assorted bacchanalia, and all manner of wretched excess.” (Laura Landro, Wall Street Journal)PRAISE FOR The Sky's the Limit: “Juicy and highly detailed, the book has movie stars, fashion designers, illicit sex, and lots of connving and cavorting