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Title	:	The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Author	:	Janice Galloway
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 236 pages
Published	:	April 15th 2015 by Dalkey Archive Press (first published October 1st 1989)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Scotland. Mental Health. Mental Illness. Health

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Janice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named Joy Stone. The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture Joy, who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental drowning of her illicit lover, but on herself. While painful and deeply serious, this is a novel of great warmth and energy: it's the wit and irony found in moments of despair that prove to be Joy's salvation. First published by Polygon in 1989 and Dalkey Archive Press in 1994, now available again.

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Original Title:	The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
ISBN:	1564780813 (ISBN13: 9781564780812)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Joy Stone
Setting:	Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland

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A moving story of the inner thoughts of a young woman suffering from depression after a severe loss. Its told through her own inner dialogue and journal entries. I found it quite moving and her analyzation of things not only a very good depiction of grief and depression, but some very on point truisms about life.

Depression, like Karen described Heroin addicts in her review for the sadly out-of-print novel Like Being Killed, is boring, self-absorbed and narcissistic. Depressed people are generally no fun for anyone. For happy people I imagine them to be unfathomable springs of annoyance. Why cant they just get on with their life, I believe they would say (maybe they say other things, happy people can feel free to enlighten me here). For other folks of melancholy dispositions, dealing with other depressed

The Trick is to Keep Breathing is one of the most psychologically immersive novels Ive ever read. Galloway transports her reader right into the fragmented mind of her grieving, depressed protagonist (ironically named Joy haha). Although inarguably traumatised by the deaths of her mother and lover, the further you get into the novel, the more evident it becomes that Joys struggles with mental health are much further reaching. Galloways novel is a relentless exploration of an unending quest to



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The Trick Is To Keep Reading! Sometimes it strikes me as utterly bizarre. Reading. Those tiny black signs on white paper that I continue to stare at for hours each day. What a strange thing to do. And what incredibly diverse emotions those tiny black signs evoke in me. What complete contrasts they generate, depending on which tiny black signs I choose to read at the same time. In this case, I read Galloway straight after Clarice Lispector's Near to the Wild Heart, and the effect is ... strong!

'The trick is' not to start reading! Page 128 and half way through. I feel I have wasted precious reading time and won't be going any further with this. Tedious, abstract, confusing, it does express the nature of mental illness well, but does nothing to entertain the reader. If anything, it's more of a fictional description of one woman's experience; a glimpse into the hopelessness of it all. It it is not make good material for 'entertaining' or 'escapist' reading. It I wanted informative