Jonathan Rosen
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
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The Best Minds is a 2023 book by Jonathan Rosen that explores the tragic story of his childhood best friend, Michael Laudor, who went from academic stardom to a psychiatric hospital after killing the woman he loved. The book delves into the forces that led to Michael's mental breakdown and the neglect of mental illness in society.
Format: Hardback
Length: 576 pages
Publication date: 18 April 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Extraordinary... Magisterial...
A remarkable meditation on friendship, success, madness and violence that refuses to oversimplify
Guardian (Book of the Day)
The darkest of literary triumphs, and the most gripping of unbearable reads
Telegraph (5 stars)
A novelist's gripping investigation of the forces that led his childhood best friend from academic stardom to the psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved
When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle, New York in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable.
Both children of professors, the boys were best friends and fierce rivals who soon followed each other to Yale University.
Michael blazed through Yale in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job.
Then one day, Jonathan received a devastating call:
Michael had suffered a psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital.
Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Michael was still in hospital when he learned he'd been accepted to Yale Law School, and living in a halfway house when he decided, against all odds, to enroll.
Still battling delusions, he managed to graduate, and after his triumphant story was featured in The New York Times, sold a memoir for a vast sum.
Ron Howard bought film rights, completing the dream for Michael and his tirelessly supportive girlfriend Carrie, and Brad Pitt was set to star.
But then Michael, in the grip of psychosis, committed a horrific act that made him a front-page story of an entirely different sort.
The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen.
Weight: 989g
Dimension: 240 x 162 x 38 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241647448
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