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We are also told that “manic depression is a genetically transmitted syndrome” (when, in fact, no replicable genetic loci have yet been identified), that “a very high proportion of manic depressives become writers” (the lifetime prevalence rate of bipolar disorder is approximately 1%, and only a tiny proportion of that 1% are writers), and that “electrophysiology, because it is dangerous, is rarely performed” (electrophysiology tools—e.g.
Your mother's repeated manic initial response to a job, then making a mess of it, is legitimate cause for concern.
22: Behind the Oval Office: Winning the Presidency in the Nineties , by Dick Morris; The Whole Wide World; The Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton; One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism , by William B. Greider; Idomeneo , by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Placido Domingo and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine; Albino Alligator ; and The Naked Truth (NBC).
They feed their resultant emptiness with manic, life-threatening, competitive pursuits that become substitutes for their sense of self worth.
In the New York Times Book Review , however, Michael Wood calls the book a "little slow," lacking the manic energy of the other Zuckerman novels.