You Had To Be There- From Web Town To Psych Ward

by Terrence McCarthy

Overview

You Had To Be There - From Web Town To Psych Ward is a memoir focusing on the author's career changes from newspaper reporter to advertising copywriter/creative director to psychiatric counselor/human rights officer. The book also includes the author's recollections of growing up in a New England mill town, Easthampton, Massachusetts. The town is also know as Web Town, for the elastic web once made in its mills. Written with McCarthy's trademark dry sense of humor, the memoir takes readers behind the doors of a locked unit in a large teaching hospital in Massachusetts.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013893665
Publisher:	Terrence McCarthy
Publication date:	03/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	269
File size:	265 KB

About the Author

Terrence McCarthy is the author of four books, including his essay collections, Road Work, Piece Work and Blood Work. He is also a regular commentator on National Public Radio's WHDD, Robin Hood Radio. An Air Force veteran, he has also been an award winning Hartford, Connecticut ad agency creative director newspaper reporter and columnist, and psychiatric counselor/human rights officer. His essays have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Charlotte Observer, Providence Journal, Hartford Courant and many other newspapers. A western Massachusetts native, he lives in North Carolina.

Editorial Reviews

" Terry cares deeply about the world around him, but he isn't strident in his view. Rather he treats it humorously, and that's what makes him successful...he's playful. "

Thomas Lux, the author of many books of poetry, is the Bourne Professor of Poetry at Georgia Teach.

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