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Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons to Live

Shortly after completing his sixth novel, Ray Robertson suffered a depression of suicidal intensity. Soon after his recover, he decided to try and answer two of the biggest questions we can ask. What makes humans happy? And what makes a life worth living?

His answers aren’t what you might expect from a mental illness memoir — but they’re exactly what you’d expect from Ray Robertson. With the vitality of Nick Hornby and a brashness all his own, Robertson runs his hands over life, death, intoxication, and art. Unashamedly working-class and unabashedly literary, Why Not? is a rolling, rocking, anti-Sisyphean odyssey.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 177
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781926845272
  • Genres
  • canada, essays, psychology, memoir
  • Release date
  • 2011