TEN VIETNAMESE.

Sheehan, Susan

Alfred.A. Knopf

" 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 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." -- Meg Greenfield, front page Washington Post Book World "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." -- Walter Clemons, Newsweek By the author of Lift for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair

Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Vintage

This is an anecdotal study of a welfare mother in Manhattan written in about 1970 for an article in the New Yorker. The author spent over a year with the subject and became part of the family so she could take notes and make observations as a fly on the wall. The result is a study that reads like a novel of life inside this household, which is quite remarkable. I can't imagine that many other authors have invested the time to research a project like this one.

A Welfare Mother

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Recounts the lonely, harrowing life of a diagnosed schizophrenic Sylvia Frumkin, whose experience has included frequent hospitalizations from childhood on, bouts with insulin comas, electroshock treatments, and drug therapy

The Pulitzer-Prize winning author reports on the daily existence of the elderly, focusing on a high-spirited Irish-born woman and her responses to aging, illness, and dependency on others

Kate Quinton's Days

An in-depth account of the discovery of a crashed American bomber missing for thirty-eight years and the painstaking identification of the plane's passengers

A Missing Plane

Literature & Fiction

United States

G.P.Putnam's Sons

Missing Plane

History

Americas

BERKLEY

Social Sciences

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