{"product_id":"is-there-no-place-on-earth-for-me-paperback","title":"Is There No Place on Earth for Me? - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Sheehan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert Coles\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eIs There No Place on Earth for Me? \u003c\/i\u003econtinues to set the standard for accounts of mental illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Sheehan is the author of eight works of nonfiction. In 1983, she received a Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eIs There No Place On Earth For Me?\u003c\/i\u003e She is also a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 14, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751119946016,"sku":"9780804169189","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0d0de0b39a476c430b03818636a381d3.webp?v=1779964814","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/is-there-no-place-on-earth-for-me-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}