The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

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A remarkable meditation on friendship, success, madness and violence that refuses to oversimplify' Guardian (Book of the Day)'The darkest of literary triumphs, and the most gripping of unbearable reads' Telegraph (5 stars)A novelist's gripping investigation of the forces that led his childhood best friend from academic stardom to the psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he lovedWhen the Rosens moved to New Rochelle, New York in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable.

Both children of professors, the boys were best friends and fierce rivals who soon followed each other to Yale University.