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Sine Wave PressTM announces the publication ofShow Your Own
An Arguable Novel and a
Screenplay
Copyright © 2001 by George L. Bilbe
Show Your Own involves the theatrical depiction of manic-depressive behavior and the evolution of a screenplay portraying a manic episode in a period of mid-life despondency. In the opinion of the psychiatrists whose
comments follow, the author humorously and realistically describes
thought, speech, and emotion, and he captures an infectious mania in a
book that is entertaining and fun to read. Two English professors are equally
generous in their assessment of the work’s dialogue and atypical
structure. Show Your Own provides an insider’s view
of manic-depression and a law teacher’s take on legal education. It also delivers the measure of
scatology promised on the volume’s front cover. Further, the book recounts the
good-natured banter involved in a collaborative effort to revise the
screenplay, and this conversation develops the central character as it
describes the process through which his script was written. "It is rare that the jaded and wordly-wise editors of the Tiger find anything worthy of praise; to us, mockery is second nature, and the mot juste is usually a four-letter word. In this case, though, we can barely restrain ourselves from adulation. Show Your Own is a work of such brilliance that the reader is well-advised to wear sunglasses." - Princeton Tiger Magazine September 2003 (Full Review) |
