{"product_id":"shadowland-9780070023116","title":"Shadowland","description":"\u003cp\u003eIntelligent  gifted  astonishingly beautiful - critically acclaimed as a rising star in the 1930s - Frances Farmers glittering world was suddenly torn asunder as she was thrown headlong into the terror-ridden world of a state insane asylum. Her fame eclipsed  her name erased from the official movie-studio history books  it was as though the women never existed. Shadowland is the harrowing  controversial  frighteningly true story of what really happened to one of the worlds most luminous young actresses. It is a story of the authors search for the long-forgotten Frances Farmer the search to unravel the enigma of a buried life. It is also a cautionary tale - a real-life fable of how the institutions of society  of law  psychiatry  and the family  converge to break a will and ultimately destroy a life. The figure that emerges is one of an enormously complicated woman: a star who rebels against the system  who is indifferent ti material success  who is tough  brutally honest  possessed of a biting  sarcastic wit  with a passionate hatred of injustice that is a constant challenge to authority. arrested on a routine drunk-driving charge  Frances rapidly found herself railroaded into a state mental institution  incarcerated against her will  placed in a violent ward  subjected successively to electro-shock and insulin shock  bound is a strait jacket and immersed in ice water  repeatedly raped  and almost certainly the victim of a secret lobotomy. Shadowland is the first full  never-before-told account of what actually happened to a major public figure - a masterwork of detecting chilling in its implication for any American. .Citizen\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279668764725,"sku":"ByrdShop_0070023115","price":157.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780070023116.jpg?v=1780605618","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/shadowland-9780070023116","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}