Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

Name: Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
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ISBN: 9780394713786

ISBN-10: 0394713788

ISBN-13: 9780394713786

Edition: N/A

Authors: Susan Sheehan, Robert M. Coles

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" A brilliantly documented chronicle of young woman's long struggle with schizophrenia." -- Willard Gaylin, The New Republic "Sylvia Frumkin," highly intelligent young girl, became a schizophrenic in her late teens and spent most of the next seventeen years in anti out of mental institutions. Susan Sheehan, a talented reporter followed "Sylvia" for almost a year talking with and observing her listening to her monologues, sitting in on consultations with doctors, even for a period sleeping in the bed next to her in a mental hospital. "Susan Sheehan has committed an extraordinary act of journalism....She brings relentless intelligent attention to bear on a particular case, a journalistic…

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List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/12/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Susan Sheehan is the author of seven books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Is There No Place on Earth for Me?" She has been a staff writer for "The New Yorker" since 1961 and has written for "The New York Times" and "Architectural Digest, " where she is a contributing writer. She lives in Washington, D.C.