{"product_id":"will-there-really-be-a-morning-an-autobiography","title":"Will there really be a morning?: An autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis chilling self-portrait of the once well-known actress who spent much of her adult life in a state mental institution is one of the most forthright  harrowing self-analyses of schizophrenia that have ever been recorded. Acknowledged as one of the worlds most beautiful women and critically acclaimed as an actress  Frances Farmer suddenly toppled from stardom and plunged headlong into the terror-ridden world of the insane. With uncomfortable candor she documents the brutal details of those isolated years in a mental hospital and her solitary struggle for reality. When she was released after seven years of horror  many of them spent in the animal cages of the violent ward  she was driven by a poignant determination to recivilize herself and survive. Under an assumed name and cut off from any ties with the past  she worked in a small town in northern California. Three years later she moved to San Francisco and took a job as a reservation clerk at the Palace Hotel. When she was recognized as Frances Farmer  newspapers across the country printed the story that she had been \"found\". Offers came from television and movies  but she was hesitant to resume her former career. However  she used a guest appearance on This Is Your Life as the wedge to carry her back to her first love  the stage. Summer stock brought her to Indianapolis and to a point in her rehabilitation where she could undertake her own local television show and play lead roles in Midwestern theaters. Still struggling against her destructive other self and the terror that constantly threatened to engulf her  she gradually inched her way into a world she had never known  a world of lucidity and serenity. In the strength and calmness that surfaced during her final  physical illness  Frances Farmer reaffirmed that despite the twisted nightmare journeys  life itself is something of value and a reason for survival. Her unadorned  searing narrative was completed a few days before her death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44643530145845,"sku":"ByrdShop_0399109137","price":264.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780399109133_80deec29-f4c0-46fd-bdb2-ac435d7f814f.jpg?v=1771687004","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/will-there-really-be-a-morning-an-autobiography","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}