The Far Side of the Moon - Trials of My Father

Informationen zum Autor Clive Stafford Smith Klappentext From the renowned human rights lawyer and activist Clive Stafford Smith, The Far Side of the Moon is a deeply personal book about men and mental health, told through Clive's challenging relationship with his late father, and his experiences representing an acute depressive on Death Row. Zusammenfassung '[A] vivid, inquiring memoir... A properly soul-searching book' - Tim Adams, Observer As one of our leading campaigners for justice, human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has spent a lifetime getting to know his clients - from detainees in Guantánamo Bay to prisoners facing execution on Death Row - and finding out, in his own words, 'what makes them tick'. But for much of his life, closer to home, there was a man whose mind remained off limits: his own father. It was only years after Dick's death, when Clive inherited more than 3,000 of his letters, that he could finally take a breath and start to piece together the obsessive personality behind them. In The Far Side of the Moon , Stafford Smith seeks the broad conversation about mental illness that was not accessible in his earlier years, reflecting on his father's fragmented life together with that of Larry Lonchar, a client who also struggled with severe depression, and whose fate continues to preoccupy him. Following the critically acclaimed Injustice , this courageous new book is an indictment of the failures in our social and justice systems, a meditation on privilege and its consequences, and an intimate exploration of how the mind's hinterlands can impact a family and shape a life.

Product details

• Authors: Clive Stafford Smith
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 31.05.2023, delayed
• EAN: 9781529112238
• ISBN: 978-1-5291-1223-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HEALTH & FITNESS / Men's Health, Memoirs, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Depression, Coping with suicide, Men’s health, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Ethical Issues: Capital Punishment, Mental Health Law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Capital Punishment