This is a short book, about 100 pages, which is supposed to be a novel but which feels highly autobiographical. The reader maybe finds out more than desired about the book's subject, who goes a bit strange in his twenties; the strangeness is followed by paranoia, then he "goes completely off his head". Eventually he is hospitalised, recovers and marries at the age of 43.
If you can grit your teeth and bear it the books good point is
that he "tells going mad like it is and he doesn't pull any
punches." A sort-of-recommendation.
Rory 26/9/04