Features
ISBN Number: 9780743264471
Subtitle: The Enigma of Suicide
Written by: Colt, George Howe
Published by: Scribner Book Company
Subject: Suicide
Subject: General Psychology & Psychiatry
Copyright: 2006
Edition Description: B102
Date of Publication: February 2006
Cover Type: Paperback
Grade Level: General/trade
Written in: English
Number of Pages: 628
Book Size: 9.28x6.32x1.51 in. 1.50 lbs.
Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews and a fascinating survey of current knowledge, Colt provides moving case studies to offer insight into all aspects of suicide — its cultural history, the latest biological and psychological research, the possibilities of prevention, the complexities of the right-to-die movement, and the effects on suicide's survivors.Presented with deep compassion and humanity, November of the Soul is an invaluable contribution not only to our understanding of suicide but also of the human condition.
Review:
"Imagine a book about a forbidden subject at once so matter-of-fact and thorough that it could be the perfect catalog and as sure-footed and moving as a good novel. This is what George Howe Colt has given us."
— Boston Globe
Review:
"Rigorous, wide-ranging, informed, and humane...Provides much sorelyneeded wisdom; it will not arrest the crisis, but it could save some lives."
— Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Review:
"An utterly fascinating, admirably well-written, and sad book...The literature on the subject — and the survivors — are greatly enriched by his evocative treatment of it."
— The New York Times Book Review
