Description: John Bentley Mays is a bestselling author, popular art and cultural critic, and consummate scholar. He also has struggled throughout his life against a dark, terrifying illness -- chronic depression. With medication, therapy counseling, and courageous determination, he fights daily to maintain order and a workable outlook on living. In this gripping memoir, he takes readers inside the maelstrom of his illness, masterfully articulating the real experience and the ceaseless struggles. Already a classic in Canada, where it held the #1 position on all four national bestseller lists simultaneously, In the Jaws of the Black Dogs is destined to strike the same provocative chord in American readers nationwide.

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