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Clown & I is a dangerous, steamy and soulful memoir from Ryan Heffernan, a man with bipolar disorder. Ryan really should have lived in another time. International celebrities get sweaty and spanked and life can be grandiose. But personal ruination forever lurks in this confronting exploration of how one man tries to fit in and make sense of the elusive real world. Laced with love, lust, heartbreak, bad boozing and poverty, Clown & I is a one-of-a-kind entry from a man in this genre. It is a dreamy and philosophical global odyssey - a diamond sparkle, spiritual and sensual insight into bipolar, stormy personal relationships, and the hard, street truths of dicey mental health in a society that won't always yield. But hope, beauty, dreamchasing, and Ryan's wondrous son, are the undisputed emperors in his eccentric universe. This is one little boy laid bare...

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I love the Clown. He is a weapon of mass booty consumption. It's not his fault, it's how he's programmed to function... - Lily Allen Dear God! This Clown creature has never, ever bed me. He is a shylock, a rampallion, a bedswerver and a man whore, stealing a pound of my flesh! Still, I find myself blushing... - Cate Blanchett The Clown is a fly swat dotard bitch on heat. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged Clown with fire and sodomy... - Kim Jong Un When you're around the Clown you can be a clown yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day... - Amy Winehouse Well knock me down with a feather, Mr Clown & I. My friend Truman Capote would like to get his hands on you. But he'll just have to stand in line... - Marilyn Monroe I don't even know what bipolar is. And who is this Clown? This is not a book. This is a gun. A smoking gun. I am taking it hunting with me... - Ernest Hemingway

I love the Clown. He is a weapon of mass booty consumption. It's not his fault, it's how he's programmed to function... - Lily Allen Dear God! This Clown creature has never, ever bed me. He is a shylock, a rampallion, a bedswerver and a man whore, stealing a pound of my flesh! Still, I find myself blushing... - Cate Blanchett The Clown is a fly swat dotard bitch on heat. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged Clown with fire and sodomy... - Kim Jong Un When you're around the Clown you can be a clown yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day... - Amy Winehouse Well knock me down with a feather, Mr Clown & I. My friend Truman Capote would like to get his hands on you. But he'll just have to stand in line... - Marilyn Monroe I don't even know what bipolar is. And who is this Clown? This is not a book. This is a gun. A smoking gun. I am taking it hunting with me... - Ernest Hemingway

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Ryan Heffernan is a self-styled writer and journalist with an unrelenting focus on high quality writing that taps into acute social issues and injustices including mental health, parenting in broken relationships, global poverty and countless other issues that stoke his fires. Fascinated by the human condition, as a writer Ryan tries to find and explore the beauty of people confronting life changing situations and soul dilemmas. He is enamoured by the people he meets and the strength they possess. Ryan has most recently released Clown & I, a memoir about his irreverent, magnetic and precarious life spent with bipolar disorder. Ryan has recently started work on his first fiction novel.

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