A remarkable story of determination and survival with the power of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Howard Dully was born in 1948. At the age of 12, he became one of
the youngest victims of the ice pick lobotomy. It would take him 40
years to recover. Abandoned by his family within a year of surgery,
Howard was institutionalised in his teens, incarcerated in his
twenties, and homeless and alcoholic in his thirties. But in his
forties, in love with a woman who was determined to have a life
with him, Howard got sober, got married, got a degree and emerged
into a kind of normalcy. He is now a bus driver, who lives happily
with his wife in California. This is his first book.
Helping Howard tell his story is journalist and writer Charles
Fleming, former Newsweek staff writer and Vanity Fair contributor.
extraordinary
*Mail on Sunday*
Dully has written a forceful account of his survival
*Observer*
astonishingly free of rancour
*The Times*
...one of the saddest stories you'll ever read
*New York Times*
...his story is both moving and revolting...he faces his past
honestly
*FT magazine*
truly stunning
*Publishers Weekly*
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