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Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
by Sheehan, Susan
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0395318718
- ISBN 13
- 9780395318713
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean first edition, first printing in clean unclipped dust jacket - now in new archival quality removable clear mylar cover. Beige paper-covered boards with green cloth spine, silver lettering on spine. No fraying or wear-through; binding is tight With a Foreword by Robert M. Coles. 333 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, one 1/4" closed edge tear. A vivid portrait of a paranoid schizophrenic who has spent much of the last seventeen years in mental institutions. At her worst, she becomes violent, hostile, and dangerous to herself. At other times, she is lucid, intelligent, and aware. With the scrupulous objecivity that is her hallmark, the author presents Miss Frumkin's life in precise detail..
Synopsis
Susan Sheehan is the author of eight works of nonfiction. In 1983, she received a Pulitzer Prize for Is There No Place On Earth For Me? She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker .
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- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035006
- Title
- Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
- Author
- Sheehan, Susan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395318718
- ISBN 13
- 9780395318713
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, MENTAL HEALTH, SCHIZOPHRENIA, CREEDMOOR PSYCHIATRIC CENTER, PSYCHIATRY, SYLVIA FRUMKIN, SCHIZOPHRENICS, FIRST EDITION, SUSAN SHEEHAN
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- Psychology;
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