The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton

At a time when teenage depression is escalating to worrisome levels, parents are alarmed to hear their children saying life is becoming too painful and not worth living. You Are Not Alone is an illuminating exposition on the inner dynamics of young people who are journeying through life challenges in a rapidly changing world of stressful situations rarely encountered a generation ago.

Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. In fact, recent research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality.