OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe heartrending story of a mid-century American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand--even cure--the disease.Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the dream. After World War II, Don's work with the US Air Force brought th...

Erano una famiglia perfetta, sono precipitati all’inferno. Stati Uniti, metà del secolo scorso. La famiglia Galvin è la personificazione del sogno americano: Don e Mimi mettono al mondo dodici figli – dieci maschi e due femmine – sani e intelligenti, campioni negli sport e nella musica. Ma le cose, con l’adolescenza, cominciano a non andare come dovrebbero. Uno dopo l’altro, sei dei ragazzi iniziano a mostrare comportamenti strani e aggressivi, in una spirale di allarme, violenze e angosci...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease."Reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us face: mental illness." —Oprah Winfrey...

New York Times Bestseller • Now a Netflix FilmWith an Afterword and New Epilogue by the AuthorThe bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer.“Rich, tragic...monumental...true-crime reporting at its best.”—Washington PostOne late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert—af...

Don y Mimi Galvin encarnan como nadie el espíritu ingenuo y entusiasta de los Estados Unidos de su época. Jóvenes y llenos de sueños y ambiciones, el futuro es para ellos un horizonte abierto. Los hijos no tardan en llegar: en 1945 nace Donald, el primero de los doce que tendrá la pareja a lo largo de dos décadas. Atléticos, inteligentes, talentosos, atractivos y felizmente instalados en la idílica casa de Hidden Valley Road, los Galvin se dirían la perfecta familia americana. Hasta que un...

The New York Times bestseller—With an Afterword and a New Epilogue by the AuthorA New York Times Notable Book—Now a Netflix Film“Meticulously reported and beautifully written . . . a haunting and powerful crime story that gives voice to those who can no longer be heard.”—David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The WagerLost Girls...

Die Galvins schienen den amerikanischen Traum zu leben: Don beruflich erfolgreich bei der Air Force, Mimi treusorgende Ehefrau und Mutter von zwölf Kindern. Doch hinter der Fassade ihres schmucken Heims in der Hidden Valley Road verbarg sich eine ganz andere Realität, geprägt von mentalen Zusammenbrüchen, plötzlichen Gewaltexzessen und Missbrauch. Bis zur Mitte der 70er-Jahre erhielten sechs der zehn Galvin-Brüder die Diagnose Schizophrenie. Die Krankheit machte alle zu Opfern, besonders a...

Almost all students have seen 2001 but virtually none understand its inheritance its complexities and certainly not its ironies. The essays in this collection commissioned from a wide variety of scholars examine in detail various possible readings of the film and its historical context. They also examine the film as a genre piece--as the summa of science fiction that simultaneously looks back on the science fiction conventions of the past (Kubrick began thinking of making a science fiction...

Trata-se da comovente história real dos Galvin, uma família americana de meados do século passado que teve seis de seus doze filhos diagnosticados com esquizofrenia. O leitor vai se sentir lendo um suspense médico: uma saga familiar cheia de amor, sofrimento e esperança que se desenvolve paralelamente não apenas aos grandes episódios da história americana do século XX, mas também aos avanços na compreensão e no tratamento da esquizofrenia. Uma leitura fascinante que nos conta a tragédia de...

«La maledicció dels Galvin és material de tragèdia grega.» The New York TimesDurant els anys setanta, sis dels dotze fills d'en Don i la Mimi Galvin van ser diagnosticats amb esquizofrènia. La vida de somni americà que havien construït es va ensorrar sense previ avís per donar pas a un futur marcat pels abusos, la violència i la vergonya social. Robert Kolker ens explica la història de tots els membres d'aquesta família, del seu amor i esperança, i repassa...

An updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film, the new edition of A Cinema of Loneliness reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade, incorporating discussions of directors like Judd Apatow and David Fincher while offering assessments of the recent, and in some cases final, work from the filmmakers--Penn, Scorsese, Stone, Altman, Kubrick--at the book's core.

Politics Goes to the Movies introduces the topic of political representation and ideology by analyzing some of the most important politically themed films across the history of cinema in a refreshing and concise volume. Offering a survey of political cinema from 1915 to present day, topics include: propaganda, Communism, Fascism, revolutionary cinema, and contemporary documentary. Using individual case studies that begin with The Birth of a Nation and end with O.J.: M...