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Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

Susan Sheehan

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#213 of 3,809 books · #100 in Biography & Memoir

Won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1983). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

Is There No Place on Earth for Me? won the Pulitzer Prize. "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.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780804169196
Topics
SchizophreniaMental illness treatmentPsychiatric institutions

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