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Kind of Mirraculas Paradise : A True Story about Schizophrenia by Sandy Allen (2018, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherScribner
ISBN-101501134035
ISBN-139781501134036
eBay Product ID (ePID)240219561
Product Key Features
Book TitleKind of Mirraculas Paradise : a True Story about Schizophrenia
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPeople with Disabilities, Psychopathology / Schizophrenia, Personal Memoirs, General
Publication Year2018
GenreBiography & Autobiography, Psychology
AuthorSandy Allen
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight15.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-034690
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingA
ReviewsCompelling... A bracing work of art and a loving tribute to a man whose voice, no matter how unpolished, deserves to be heard., A book of many strange and often oddly beautiful pieces that together combine into a story that will make you tremble. A Kind of Miraculous Paradise is a resurrection of sorts, a profound retrieval of a life from beyond the veil with which so many of us obscure the realities of illness and family, loneliness and intimacy., Enthralling... Being inside [Bob's] head, seeing how life felt and looked to him, is a miraculous thing indeed., Insightful... Allen offers readers an incredible glimpse into the life of a person battling with schizophrenia., Compelling... skillful... vivid... a page-turning biography and family history... a deeply personal story about an enigmatic person living the only way he knows how: by trial and error., To pay great attention and devote steady care to the perspective of another is, in itself, almost miraculous--especially when the Other has been cast as mad and dangerous. Sandra Allen has brought forward her uncle's life, rendering in exquisite detail what his experiences as a stigmatized, struggling man allowed him to see. This is a truly original piece of work. I urge you to read it., This book is an act of radical empathy through which the author--and, vicariously, the reader--enters intimately into a life that would otherwise be unintelligible., Righteous, empathetic... [Paranoia] is seldom experienced or portrayed so elegantly as Allen does here., A breakthrough in meta-biographical writing... [Allen] marries several distinct genres to produce an insight into what it means to be a person with a psychiatric diagnosis...Thrilling... Gorgeous... a watershed in empathetic adaptation of 'outsider' autobiography.
Dewey Decimal616.89/80092 B
Synopsis"Compelling...A bracing work of art and a loving tribute" ( Los Angeles Times ), this propulsive, stunning book illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia like never before. Sandra Allen did not know their uncle Bob very well. As a child, Sandy had been told Bob was "crazy," that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than Sandy had been alive, and what little Sandy knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009 Bob mailed Sandy his autobiography. Typewritten in all caps, a stream of error-riddled sentences more than sixty, single-spaced pages, the often-incomprehensible manuscript proclaimed to be a "true story" about being "labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic," and arrived with a plea to help him get his story out to the world. "Searing" ( O, The Oprah Magazine ), "enthralling" ( Star-Tribune , Minneapolis), and "a marvel" ( Esquire ), A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise shows how Sandy translated Bob's autobiography, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story while sticking faithfully to the facts as he shared them. Sandy also shares background information about their family, the culturally explosive time and place of their uncle's formative years, and the vitally important questions surrounding schizophrenia and mental healthcare in America more broadly. The result is a heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious portrait of a young man striving for stability in his life as well as his mind, and an utterly unique lens into an experience that, to most people, remains unimaginable. "Thrilling...Gorgeous...a watershed in empathetic adaptation of 'outsider' autobiography" ( The New Republic ), A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise is a dazzlingly, daringly written book that's poised to change conversations about schizophrenia and mental illness overall., Dazzlingly, daringly written, marrying the thoughtful originality of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts with the revelatory power of Neurotribes and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, this propulsive, stunning book illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia like never before. Writer Sandra Allen did not know their uncle Bob very well. As a child, Sandy had been told Bob was "crazy," that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than Sandy had been alive, and what little Sandy knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009 Bob mailed Sandy his autobiography. Typewritten in all caps, a stream of error-riddled sentences over sixty, single-spaced pages, the often-incomprehensible manuscript proclaimed to be a "true story" about being "labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic," and arrived with a plea to help him get his story out to the world. In A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story about Schizophrenia , Sandy translates Bob's autobiography, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story while sticking faithfully to the facts as he shared them. Lacing Bob's narrative with chapters providing greater contextualization, Sandy also shares background information about their family, the culturally explosive time and place of their uncle's formative years, and the vitally important questions surrounding schizophrenia and mental healthcare in America more broadly. The result is a heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious portrait of a young man striving for stability in his life as well as his mind, and an utterly unique lens into an experience that, to most people, remains unimaginable. Called "an act of radical empathy" by Anne Fadiman and "a truly original piece of work" by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise is a propulsive, stunning book that's poised to change conversation about schizophrenia and mental illness generally.
LC Classification NumberRC514.A4415 2018
