Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin

By Courtney A. Walsh

Book Overview

Beginning with a botched suicide attempt, Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin takes the reader on a journey that's at once inspiring, haunting, heartfelt, and hilarious. From life at a mental... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615159532
• ISBN13: 9780615159539
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Courtney a Walsh
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Underground

Excellent book - suggested by the [...] website. Courtney Walsh does an excellent job of chronicalling the search for her own "authentic self" in our modern times - where one's own self identity is often a measure of subjective "standards". Super insights! There indeed ought to be more books written about this subject.

Lipstick and Thongs

Lipstick and Thongs grabs all the Nurse Ratched's ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") in our society and cleverly forces them to take a closer, compassionate look at the taboo subject of suicide. Author Courtney Walsh brilliantly uses her charm and wit to hold the readers hand as they stroll down a dark and lonely path together with a personal comprehension and confidence that has not been expressed in quite this way ever before. A truly engaging, must read memoir that will touch your soul.

Life for Dummies!

Finally someone has brought to life a story of mental illness, courage and survival - and you don't need a doctorate to understand it! This book should be on the 'must read' list for all young women. A fantastic tale of one woman's roller coaster ride through life. I'm not sure where I stopped laughing and started crying...

Not enough books like this

Mental illness gets short shrift in books and movies. Typically, the "crazy" person is treated like a pathetic victim or a frightening pariah. It's wonderful to see an author treat this topic with humor, sarcasm and wit. I hope to see more from Ms. Walsh in the not to distant future.

Sex and the City meets Girl Interrupted

Okay, well not really. But the book is good. At times hysterical, at times heartwrenching, but always insightful and honest. A true-to-life, heartfelt account not of a life gone wrong, but of the sometimes terrifying journey towards getting it right.