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Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind Book
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Product Description
A friend and confidante reveals the private Iris Chang--the woman behind the international celebrity and bold personality--and attempts to understand Chang's terrible psychological decline.
Iris Chang's mysterious suicide in 2004, at age thirty-six, didn't seem to make any sense. She had more to live for than anyone, including fame, fortune, beauty, a husband, and child. Some even wondered if the controversial author of the Rape of Nanking had been murdered.
Long-time friend Paula Kamen was among those left wondering what had gone so wrong. Seeking to reconcile the suicide with the image of Chang's "perfect" life, Kamen searched her own memory and scoured Chang's letters, diaries, and archival material to fill in the gaps of Chang's personal transformation--from awkward teen to homecoming princess in college, from "ex-shy person" to world-class speaker and international human rights pioneer--and later decline into mental illness and paranoia. A literary investigation of an important writer's journey, Finding Iris is a tribute to a lost heroine, a portrait of the real and vulnerable woman who inspired so many around the world.
- 0306814668
- 9780306814662
- Paula Kamen
- 1 November 2007
- Da Capo Press
- Hardcover (Book)
- 304
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