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The Voices of Robby Wilde

The Voices of Robby Wilde

by Robert Coles (Foreword), Elizabeth Kytle (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

    $31.79
Synopsis

The Voices of Robby Wilde is an engrossing, often disturbing, look at the inner life of a paranoid schizophrenic. Some ten years before his death at age fifty-three, Wilde asked his friend Elizabeth Kytle to write about his affliction. Ranging in time from Wilde's youth in rural North Carolina to his impoverished last days in Columbus, Ohio, Kytle chronicles the slow unravelling and final breakdown of a life. Wilde's story, heightened by his longing to be understood and his acute grasp of his own situation, will challenge readers to new levels of respect and compassion for the mentally ill.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 344
 Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
Published: 30 Apr 1995
ISBN 10: 0820317152
ISBN 13: 9780820317151

Media Reviews

Told not just with incisive knowledge but the deepest compassion and understanding.

--Norman Cousins

Extremely well-written. Robby's striving to live and work a normal life despite his illness raises him from being a common man to a more lofty station.

--E. Fuller Torrey author of Surviving Schizophrenia

Kytle has done an excellent job of educating the public about the severe form of mental illness that is paranoid schizophrenia. Beautifully written and easy to read, I can recommend this book for a wide range of readers, from young adults to professionals.

--Peter A. Martin psychiatrist
Author Bio
Elizabeth Kytle resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She is also the author of Willie Mae (Georgia reprint, 1993).