My Brain on Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions

by Leonard Pitt

Book Overview

This is Leonard Pitt's story of growing up the misfit in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s. In a later age he would have been put on Ritalin and paraded before psychiatrists because he couldn't pay attention in school. In 1962, at the end of a misguided foray towards a career in advertising he took the ultimate cure, a trip to Paris. He thought it would only be a visit. He stayed seven years. There in the City of Light, Leonard's mind exploded. And it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593766343
• ISBN13: 9781593766344
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Soft Skull
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"