Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

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This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of schizophrenia-now reissued with a new postscript-follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness.

"Sylvia Frumkin" was born in 1948 and began showing signs of schizophrenia in her teens. She spent the next seventeen years in and out of mental institutions. In 1978, reporter Susan Sheehan took an interest in her and, for more than two years, became immersed in her life: talking with her, listening to her monologues, sitting in on consultations with doctors-even, for a period, sleeping in the bed next to her in a psychiatric center. With Sheehan, we become witness to Sylvia's plight: her psychotic episodes, the medical struggle to control her symptoms, and the overburdened hospitals that, more often than not, she was obliged to call home. The resulting book, first published in 1982, was hailed as an extraordinary achievement: harrowing, humanizing, moving, and bitingly funny. Now, some two decades later, Is There No Place on Earth for Me? continues to set the standard for accounts of mental illness.

Über den Autor

Susan Sheehan graduated from Wellesley College in 1958, worked as a fact checker for Esquire for a year and a half, started writing book reviews for the New Republic in 1959, and light pieces for the New Yorker in 1960. After contributing "casuals" and Talk of the Town stories to the New Yorker, she became a staff writer for the magazine in 1961 and wrote her first nonfiction series in [...] 1965, Sheehan flew to Jakarta, Indonesia, to marry Neil Sheehan, a New York Times foreign correspondent she had met in New York City a few months earlier. In the summer of 1965, Neil was transferred to Saigon, where Sheehan wrote her first book, Ten Vietnamese, which was published in 1967. By then, Neil had been transferred to the Washington bureau of the Times. Sheehan commuted to New York for the next few decades, during which time she continued to write for the Times, the Boston Globe, and Washingtonian, in addition to authoring eight books. Is There No Place on Earth for Me?, published in 1982, won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 1983. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, and the Open Society Institute. She served as the chair of the Pulitzer Prize nominating jury for general nonfiction in 1988 and 1994, and as a member of that jury in 1991. She was also a contributing writer for Architectural Digest for fifteen years. Most recently, she reviewed books for the Outlook section of the Washington Post.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780804169189
ISBN-10:	0804169187
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Sheehan, Susan
Hersteller:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	203 x 132 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Susan Sheehan
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.01.2014
Gewicht:	0,427 kg

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