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Agnes's Jacket
- A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
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Summary
Optimistic, courageous, and surprising, Agnes's Jacket takes us from a code-cracking bunker during World War II to the church basements and treatment centers where a whole new way of understanding the mind has begun to take form. A vast gulf exists between the way medicine explains psychiatric illness and the experiences of those who suffer. Hornstein's luminous work helps us bridge that gulf, guiding us through the inner lives of those diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar illness, depression, and paranoia and emerging with nothing less than a new model for understanding one another and ourselves.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-12-21
Great book, terrible narration.
I enjoyed the book, it’s very informative. However the narrator lets it down badly with her terrible accents. I laughed out loud the first time she did an English accent (if you are a Friends fan, it’s like Amanda from Yonkers) but a few hours in it grated on me. Then she did a Scottish accent that sounded like an American trying to imitate an Irish person. She was reading a serious first person account and it just sounded like she was mocking someone. If I was the author or the mental health survivor I’d be seriously unhappy. If you can’t do an accent, don’t try!
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Brianako
- 22-09-15
Hilarious accents
What disappointed you about Agnes's Jacket?
At one point, late in the book, Hornstein eulogises "feminist" writing as non hierarchical, but having several centres. I frequently wondered what was the point? To parody, I was cycling through the market square in Cambridge. The flower seller waved at in my direction. Did she see me? Was she as preoccuppied with Agnes Jacket as I was? Would she have been as sanctimonious as me if she could have spoken to me in words, instead of waving? Would she have asked as many rhetorical questions? Was the florist even relevant to the point I was making? We will never know.
Who was your favorite character and why?
John's story weaved the mystic and the insane so closely, it reminded me of Icarus. Peter's and Nicky's stories were harrowing in their own way
What didn’t you like about Marguerite Gavin’s performance?
Gavin has only two accents; Felicity Pippinsworth from plummy London or Hamish McTavish, a half drunk Scottish man doing shady deals in West Belfast. Both are preposterous. When not doing accents, her insistent inflections at teh end of every sentence are faintly condescending.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Agnes's Jacket?
I would have cut out all autobiographical ramblings, all repetition, and credited the reader with some intelligence.
Any additional comments?
Some well made points, but seven hours of my life I will never get back.
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