Alice Carrière , author of ‘Everything Nothing Someone’, the intense, powerful memoir about growing up between cultural glamour and psych wards tells Joan Juliet Buck how she survived. One key : dissociation can lead to empathy, and empathy is love.
The memoir Alice Carrière has written about her childhood is the most shocking and uplifting book of the decade .
The brilliant only child of the famous American painter Jennifer Bartlett and an intellectual European movie star, Alice Carrière had to find her own self on the far side of her dissociative disorder, despite the brutal coercions of the mental health establishment, medication-induced psychotic breaks, and the damage wrought on her family by the satanic panic of the 1980s.
With immense talent , infinite grace , and rare empathy, the book moves towards love. Alice Carrière, now married, sober, and happy , took care of her mother through dementia to her death, confronted her father about what exactly had happened between them. In a spontaneous, unguarded and tender conversation, Alice Carriere tells all.
Everything Nothing Someone, published by Spiegel & Grau, $28.00,
Jennifer Bartlett’s career-making1976 Rhapsody , made up of 988 painted steel plate is up again at MOMA.
Mathieu Carrière’s films include Young Torless, Tonio Kroger , and many by the writer Marguerite Duras.
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