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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
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
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English
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"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...
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English
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The true story of John Nash, the math genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness; through the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community he emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize; now a major motion picture--Cover.
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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 whichwe understand--and fail to understand--mental illness.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
At a summer camp in 1976, a 17-year-old girl suddenly hears a voice in the night. Booming out through the darkness, it makes her bolt awake. It says things that she has never before imagined. And it will be with her for years to come, tormenting her, robbing her of her sanity and very nearly her life
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