Books by Martha Manning and Complete Book Reviews
Martha Manning, Author . Ballantine $23.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-345-45055-5
Wanting to do something meaningful as she battled severe depression, Manning, a clinical psychologist acclaimed for her personal account (Undercurrents) of this debilitating illness, volunteered to provide Christmas presents for a needy family in a...
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Martha Manning, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (197p) ISBN 978-0-06-251183-6
Manning, a clinical psychologist, led a busy life as therapist, mother and psychology professor at George Mason University in Virginia when, in 1990, she sank into crippling depression. Obsessed with images of death and plagued by suicidal thoughts,
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Martha Manning, Author HarperOne $20 (225p) ISBN 978-0-06-251311-3
Manning, who had a critical success with Undercurrents, fares less well here, perhaps because her book veers between the modes of Mary McCarthy's Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood and Erma Bombeck's domestic epistles. Bombeck's shoes pinch this...
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