SAY SO

Sylvia Nash's biography of John Nash Jr [Touchstone 1998] spares nothing to get at the complexities of Nash's work, his aggressive competitive behaviour as a young man, his delusional psychotic illness, the terrible treatment, his homosexual relationships, his mistress of four years and the son she bore him, his marriage, the near-complete remission of his illness, and the psychotic illness of the son of his marriage. It's a sad tale of a difficult life. Anyone who has ben near to a friend or relation who has a psychotic illness will find it has a terrrible accuracy. Reading it brings renewed pain and grief. The movie falls a long way short of the book