
His freshman year of college, Alex Lemon was supposed to be the star catcher on the Macalester College baseball team. He was the boy getting every girl, the hard-partying kid everyone called Happy. In the spring of 1997, he had his first stroke. For two years Lemon coped with his deteriorating health by sinking deeper into alcohol and drug abuse. His charming and carefree exterior masked his self-...
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Scribner; 1 edition (December 29, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416550232
ISBN-13: 978-1416550235
Product Dimensions: 5 x 1 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 433962
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Alex Lemon's first major publication in prose is also his best work to date. The entire books crackles with vibrant imagery and original wordplay. Every few pages, you are reminded of just how cinematic and beautiful Lemon's voice can be.Like any goo...
and sometimes cruel behavior as he endured two more brain bleeds and a crippling depression. After undergoing brain surgery, he is nursed back to health by his free-spirited artist mother, who once again teaches him to stand on his own. Alive with unexpected humor and sensuality, Happy is a hypnotic self-portrait of a young man confronting the wreckage of his own body; it is also the deeply moving story of a mother?s redemptive and healing powers. Alex Lemon?s Technicolor sentences pop and sing as he writes about survival?of the body and of the human spirit.