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Book, 2000
Current format, Book, 2000, 1st ed, All copies in use.
Book, 2000
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The author reflects on the loss of his father to schizophrenia and madness, piecing together the fragments of a life that disintigrated with the onset of the disease, leaving his fathera brilliant sociology professorparanoid, estranged from his family, and living in extreme poverty. $30,000 ad/promo. The Outsider is an unsentimental yet profoundly moving look at one family's experience with mental illness. The Outsider moves beyond more straightforward accounts of mental illness to create a suspenseful and moving account of a son's search for the truth behind his father's haunted, solitary existence. It is a memoir of a father's fight to survive with dignity, and a son's struggle to know the father he lost to schizophrenia long before he finally lost him to death.
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