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Juliann Garey has sold original screenplays and television pilots to Sony Pictures, NBC, CBS, Columbia TriStar Television and Lifetime TV. As a journalist she has edited and written for publications including Marie Claire, Glamour, More, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, New York Magazine, The Los Angeles Times and The Huffington Post. She has received fellowships in fiction writing at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The Vermont Studio Center. Garey is a graduate of Yale University and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Too Bright To Hear Too Loud To See is her first novel. From the Hardcover edition.
Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See is a brilliant first novel about love and madness, written with an assured grace. <br>--Nancy Pearl <br> A fine, sharp-tongued debut. Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See is a novel deeply wrapped around its subject, but it has its sights on grander themes -- namely, how to survive in a world not made for you. <br>-- Los Angeles Times<br> <br> [Greyson Todd] is interesting and complex...We are deftly led through his erratic trains of thought, and suddenly we are with him in the irrational, sometimes violent place, and oddly, we understand how we got there. <br>-- All Things Considered <br> Juliann Garey, who has spoken openly about being bipolar herself, is a vivid and startling writer, and this novel shouldn't be relegated to the mental illness shelf unless it's also placed squarely in fiction and literature, where it will not only teach, it will shine. <br>--Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings <br> You won't be able to put down this exhilarating debut novel... brave and touching. <br>-- Marie Claire <br> Garey delivers a genuinely harrowing story that, against all odds, is deeply enjoyable. <br>-- Boston Globe <br> A gripping tale of a man's unraveling. <br>-- Real Simple <br> [Garey's] tense, unsettling, and convincing portrait of mental illness...[makes] a dark novel glow. <br>-- Entertainment Weekly <br> Greyson Todd is the most fully-realized fictional character I've come across in a while...Garey doesn't shy away from the depths of her character's pain, but scenes that could easily become gratuitous in lesser hands are rendered with restraint and grace. She excels at leading us down the rabbit hole...Garey creates an atmosphere of exquisite tension. <br> --The Millions<br> <br> Brilliantly captures the effects of electro-convulsive therapy...[Garey's] prose, with its mixture of the poetic and the profane, illuminates the psyche of a bipolar man, who seeks not a Hollywood ending but a rest
