About this title: A riveting true story of sisters who were identical, until the voices began " " Growing up in the fifties, Carolyn Spiro was always in the shadow of her more intellectually dominant and socially outgoing twin, Pamela. But as the twins approached adolescence, Pamela began to suffer the initial symptoms of schizophrenia, hearing disembodied voices that haunted her for years and culminated during her freshman year of college at Brown University where she had her first major breakdown and hospitalization. Pamela's illness allowed Carolyn to enter the spotlight that had for so long been ...
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Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St Martins Press, New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312320645ISBN:0312320647
Description: New York: St Martins Press, 2005 First Edition: First Printing: HardCover! 8vo., 318 pages. Illustrated with B&W photographs! This book is unmarked and fine in a very good unmarked dust jacket that was incorrectly trimmed during production, now showing a closed tear to foot of spine fold, and in a clear dust jacket protector this is a very attractive copy of this title! ISBN: 9780312320645. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312320645ISBN:0312320647
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 318 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine b & w pictorial dj. This harrowing but arresting memoir--written in alternating voices by identical twins, now in their 50s--reveals how devastating schizophrenia is to both the victim and those who love her. The condition, which afflicts Pamela (an award-winning poet), can be controlled with drugs and psychiatry, but never cured. When the twins were young, Pamela always outshone Carolyn. But in junior high, Pamela was beset by fears and began a lifelong ... read more
Binding: book Hardcover
Publisher: St Martins Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312320645ISBN:0312320647
Description: Brand New. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 318 pages. 8.80 x 6.00 x 1.00 in. 17.6 oz. A dual memoir tells the alternating stories of a pair of identical twin sisters, a schizophrenic and a psychiatrist, in an account that traces their childhoods, the deterioration of the favored sister into mental illness, and the other's emergence from her troubled sibling's shadow into a successful career. [A] harrowing but arresting memoir....Empathic and concerned, Carolyn ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martins Press, NY
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312320645ISBN:0312320647
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Signed By Both Authors! SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS! Nice pages, firm binding, great hardcover and nice jacket with some edge wear. Nice! (S91) read more
Edition: First Printing (1, 2, 3...)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St Martins Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312320645ISBN:0312320647
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. 8&1/2" by 6" Tan binding with gilt title, clean and tight, 318 pages, illustrated; jacket is clean and bright, closed tear on jacket spine. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312320645ISBN:0312320647
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312320645ISBN:0312320647
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312320645ISBN:0312320647
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St Martins Pr, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312320645ISBN:0312320647
Description: New in New jacket. This book is new. This harrowing but arresting memoir--written in alternating voices by identical twins, now in their 50s--reveals how devastating schizophrenia is to both the victim and those who love her. The condition, which afflicts Pamela (an award-winning poet), can be controlled with drugs and psychiatry, but never cured. When the twins were young, Pamela always outshone Carolyn. But in junior high, Pamela was beset by fears and began a lifelong pattern of cutting and ... read more
Description: Good. 0312320647 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
"found this jointly authored book (Pamela and Caroline) fascinating insight into the slip into schizophrenia...and also fascinated by the unique bonds between two twins."
"This book is a really interesting autobiography by Carolyn Spiro, an identical twin with schizophrenia. She and her sister go back and forth describing their childhood and college years, into adulthood. It is really interesting to hear Carolyn's account of what happens, altered by her schizophrenia, and then have the gaps filled in by Pamela. There is some inappropriate language (which makes sense when considering the type of disease). It would be suggested for older students.
"Twins- one becomes schizophrenic, one becomes a psychiatrist. Fascinating! They lead you to understand how their perceptions of similar situations changed as their brain chemistries were doing their work."
What can I say about this book. First it reads like a well written novel, but it is a true story about twin sisters, one of whom has schizophrenia. I am not sure if I should feel sorrier for the sister with it or sister who has to live with the hopelessness of not being able to help her sister despite being in the medical profession herself.
It is a moving story on several levels. It is about family, about twinness, about mental illness and the inability and sometimes inhumane way we treat patients, and it is also about the brillance of the human mind.
Very much, like the story of a Beautiful Mind, Pamela Wagner, has schizophrenia, but she is brillant in many ways. She went to Brown University, and even was admitted to medical school all the time battling this terrible disease.
The books allows you to get into her head and feel what it is like for her.
My only criticism of the book is that I wish her sister, Carolyn, had written with more details about her first hand feelings of having a sister in this situation and the horrific effects it has on the family. I also felt that the parents actions or lack of actions were reprehensible. Their father was a doctor, and he treated Pamela for over 30 years as if she had leprosy instead of an incurable mental illness.
Hats off to both women for having the courage to bare their souls."
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