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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
The true story of a troubled Princeton mathematician who is able to overcome years of suffering from schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.
"Harrowing, heartbreaking and deeply human."--Kansas City Star
"Good, old-fashioned storytelling, with both a twist and a heart."--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"A beautiful movie."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed author investigates the forces that led his closest childhood friend, a paranoid schizophrenic with brilliant promise who defied the odds and graduated from Yale Law School, to kill the woman he loved, in this exploration of the ways in which we understand--and fail to understand--mental illness.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"What a father will do to fight the mental illness that has destroyed his son. What does a father do when hope is gone that his only son can ever lead anything close to a 'normal' life? That's the question that haunted Dick Russell in the fall of 2011, when his son, Franklin, was thirty-two. At the age of seventeen, Franklin had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. For years he spent time in and out of various hospitals, and even went through periods...
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