The Minds of Billy Milligan, Daniel Keyes
The Minds of Billy Milligan, Daniel Keyes
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The Minds of Billy Milligan

Author: Daniel Keyes

Narrator: Roger Wayne

Unabridged: 15 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/29/2022

Synopsis

Billy Milligan can be anyone he wants to be … except himself. Out of control of his actions, Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his body—a battle that culminated when he awoke in jail, arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women. In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by multiple personality—the first such court decision in history—bringing to public light the most remarkable and harrowing case of multiple personality ever recorded.Twenty-four people live inside Billy Milligan.Philip, a petty criminal; Kevin, who dealt drugs and masterminded a drugstore robbery; April, whose only ambition was to kill Billy’s stepfather; Adalana, the shy, lonely, affection-starved lesbian who “used” Billy’s body in the rapes that led to his arrest; David, the eight-year-old “keeper of pain”; and all of the others, including men, women, several children, and the teacher, the only one who can put them all together. You will meet each in this often shocking true story. And you will be drawn deeply into the mind of this tortured young man and his splintered, terrifying world.

About Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes (1927–2014) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was the author of eight books, including the classic Flowers for Algernon, first published in 1966, which would go on to sell more than five million copies and inspire the Oscar-winning film Charly. He also worked as a merchant seaman, a fiction editor, a high school teacher, and as a university professor at Ohio University, where he was honored at Professor Emeritus in 2000. He won the Hugo and Nebula awards for his work.

About Roger Wayne

Roger Wayne served in the Air Force as a radio and television broadcast journalist in South Korea and won several awards before obtaining a BA degree in communications and journalism. He is an actor living in New York, narrating audiobooks, working on independent film projects, performing off Broadway, and auditioning for major network shows.

Reviews

Goodreads review by erigibbi

Il 27 ottobre 1977 la polizia di Columbus arresta il ventiduenne Billy Milligan con l’accusa di aver rapito, violentato e rapinato tre studentesse universitarie. Billy ha vari precedenti penali e contro di lui ci sono prove schiaccianti ma, durante la perizia psichiatrica richiesta dalla difesa, eme......more

Goodreads review by Frank

Author Daniel Keyes has presented a very riveting description of the human condition if it is pushed too far. I have read this book twice and I have to say that it is one of the best books I have ever read. Enduring unbelievably cruel tortures as a child at the hands of his stepfather, including sod......more

Goodreads review by Rob

Su questo libro devo fare una distinzione: c’è la storia, e poi c’è il libro. La storia è una delle più incredibili, tragiche, strazianti che abbia mai sentito, e Billy Milligan è una persona straordinariamente forte. Nonostante non abbia avuto altro che sofferenza e dolore dalla vita, non si è mai......more

Goodreads review by Ancuța✨

Just read this book please. 🥹💜......more

Goodreads review by Fitrani

This book is a serious mind fuck for me. When it comes to writing technique; this book lacks of dramatic elements, and the language used is too clinical, too many characters, and probably the conversations in the book were transcribed from tapes. But once I took the book, I was drawn so deeply by the......more

Quotes

“Keyes, who spent two years with Billy Milligan and interviewed his family, friends, and acquaintances, as well as some of those in the medical profession who have tried to comprehend him, tells this complicated story well.” New York Times Book Review

“Harrowing, compelling.” Village Voice

“An absorbing, often heart-rending exploration of the human mind.” Cosmopolitan

“With brilliance and discernment, Daniel Keyes adds to the popular literature about multiple personality…The book is a milestone.” Flora Rheta Schreiber, New York Times bestselling author

“A fascinating work.” Los Angeles Times

Awards

  • Kurd Lasswitz Award for Best Work by a Foreign Author
  • Seiun Award
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