{"product_id":"is-there-no-place-on-earth-for-me-isbn-9780804169189","title":"Is There No Place on Earth for Me?","description":"\u003cb\u003ePULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The renowned journalist's classic investigation of schizophrenia that follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The classic case study of schizophrenia that set the stage for reform. . . . Its insight, compassion, and humanity have much to teach us.\" —Andrew Solomon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe resulting book, first published in 1982, was hailed as an extraordinary achievement: harrowing, humanizing, moving, and bitingly funny. Now, decades later, \u003ci\u003eIs There No Place on Earth for Me? \u003c\/i\u003econtinues to set the standard for accounts of mental illness.“The classic case study of schizophrenia that set the stage for reform. . . . Its insight, compassion, and humanity have much to teach us.\" —Andrew Solomon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Compelling, mordantly funny. . . . [A] beautifully written chronicle.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A brilliantly documented chronicle of a young woman's long struggle with schizophrenia.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Susan Sheehan has committed an extraordinary act of journalism. . . . She brings relentless intelligent attention to bear on a particular case, a journalistic practice that almost always results in new and disturbing insights into those mindless generalities and prejudice and certitudes we tend to carry around with us.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Sheehan is tenacious, observant and unsentimental. The history of a single patient leads us into a maze of understaffed institutions, bureaucratic fumbling, trial-and-error treatment and familial incomprehension. Though Sheehan keeps herself invisible, her sympathy is palpable.\" —\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"[A] monumental piece of reportage. . . . A model of close-up journalism: totally convincing, unsentimental yet obviously compassionate, rigorously plain.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\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.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301291872485,"sku":"NP9780804169189","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780804169189.jpg?v=1767730197","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/is-there-no-place-on-earth-for-me-isbn-9780804169189","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}