DEMONIC TO DIVINE . The Double Life of Shulamis Yelin

Canada 2015. This book is a weaving of the Montreal writer’s stories, selected diary excerpts and family photographs that reveal a far reaching creative personality who was haunted from the age of ten by the “moods taking over”. This book poignantly illuminates the dramatic duality of a public and private literary and emotional life through her published and unpublished stories of an idyllic Montreal Jewish childhood contrasted with deeply troubled and often shocking diary entries that document the author’s lifelong battle with mental illness. Yelin’s insightful yet light and humorous stories have been cherished by generations of children and adults for their universal appeal. The journal entries that she maintained for most of her 90 years document the abuse, paranoia, self-loathing, doubt and devastating depression of Yelin’s true emotional state. These concurrent lenses reveal the profound struggles and suffering of a facinating and hightly gifted woman who transcended her ongoing deep seated emoitional agony to create a significant literary legacy., English, Year2015, Illust. B/W, Illust. Color, ISBN 9781550653830, Code 6987. Softbound, In Pristine Condition, Pages , Size