{"product_id":"exhibitionist-peter-mendelsund-9781646222896","title":"Exhibitionist: 1 Journal, 1 Depression, 100 Paintings","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom acclaimed designer and novelist Peter Mendelsund, a deeply personal reflection on depression and the redemptive power of art, interspersed with 100 original paintings\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the early days of the pandemic, Peter Mendelsund and his family traveled up to a secluded New Hampshire farmhouse to weather the chaos. There began his journey through a crippling and seemingly intractable depression--which differed in degree but not in kind from episodes that have recurred periodically throughout his life--that brought him to the brink of suicide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRelief came from an unlikely source: painting, something Peter had never contemplated doing before. And yet it became the thing that may very well have saved his life. Bleakly funny, profoundly moving, and--against all odds--truly inspiring, \u003ci\u003eExhibitionist\u003c\/i\u003e is not just an account of a mind thinking through its own suffering in real-time, and of the author's reckoning with his father's tortured legacy; it's also the story of the birth of an artist, and a portrait of an artist at work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Mendelsund\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 164622289X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646222896\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catapult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Peter Mendelsund","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46233291325695,"sku":"9781646222896","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ad3aabb7-878f-4f3f-874b-fffde26bf443.jpg?v=1728992606","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/exhibitionist-peter-mendelsund-9781646222896","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}