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A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia, Sandra Allen

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"Sandra Allen did not know her uncle Bob very well. As a child, she had been told he 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 she had been alive, and what little she knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009 Bob mailed her 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, Allen translates her uncle's autobiography, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story while sticking faithfully to the facts as he shared them..."--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Extent
vii, 275 pages
Contents
  • Genesis
  • IM ROBERT
  • The way society was
  • THE CAGED WINDOW
  • A blank
  • ::WHEEEEE:::
  • You can call it anything
  • A LIVING ZOMBIE
  • A real shocker
  • FAMOUSE
  • The right treatment
  • GOD HAD ANSWERED
  • Three days
  • LOUISIANA
  • Any other way
  • THE FANNZE
  • What a shame
  • THE SERVICE
  • The story of Annadonia
  • TABBACO ROAD
  • The fifth portrait
  • PARADISE
Isbn
9781501134036
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Label
A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
Title
A kind of mirraculas paradise
Title remainder
a true story about schizophrenia
Statement of responsibility
Sandra Allen
Title variation
Kind of miraculous paradise
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"Sandra Allen did not know her uncle Bob very well. As a child, she had been told he 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 she had been alive, and what little she knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009 Bob mailed her 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, Allen translates her uncle's autobiography, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story while sticking faithfully to the facts as he shared them..."--
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individual biography
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10616357
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DLC
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1987-
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Allen, Sandy
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
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True
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  • Allen, Sandra
  • Schizophrenics
  • Mentally ill
  • Schizophrenics
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a true story about schizophrenia
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A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia, Sandra Allen
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volume
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rdacarrier
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text
Content type code
  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Genesis -- IM ROBERT -- The way society was -- THE CAGED WINDOW -- A blank -- ::WHEEEEE::: -- You can call it anything -- A LIVING ZOMBIE -- A real shocker -- FAMOUSE -- The right treatment -- GOD HAD ANSWERED -- Three days -- LOUISIANA -- Any other way -- THE FANNZE -- What a shame -- THE SERVICE -- The story of Annadonia -- TABBACO ROAD -- The fifth portrait -- PARADISE
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Extent
vii, 275 pages
Isbn
9781501134036
Lccn
2017034690
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Stock number
BRO-copy20180130-074
System control number
  • (OCoLC)ocn989963798
  • (OCoLC)989963798
  • 491327
  • 508409
Label
A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia, Sandra Allen
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Genesis -- IM ROBERT -- The way society was -- THE CAGED WINDOW -- A blank -- ::WHEEEEE::: -- You can call it anything -- A LIVING ZOMBIE -- A real shocker -- FAMOUSE -- The right treatment -- GOD HAD ANSWERED -- Three days -- LOUISIANA -- Any other way -- THE FANNZE -- What a shame -- THE SERVICE -- The story of Annadonia -- TABBACO ROAD -- The fifth portrait -- PARADISE
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Extent
vii, 275 pages
Isbn
9781501134036
Lccn
2017034690
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Stock number
BRO-copy20180130-074
System control number
  • (OCoLC)ocn989963798
  • (OCoLC)989963798
  • 491327
  • 508409

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