I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Behind the quiet surface of a teenage girl's life lies a secret world of terrifying beauty and darkness — a place called Yr, a kingdom of the mind that is both refuge and prison. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden chronicles the harrowing yet ultimately hopeful journey of sixteen-year-old Deborah Blau, a young woman battling schizophrenia who is committed to a psychiatric institution in the 1950s, where she must choose between the seductive pull of her elaborate inner fantasy world and the painful, uncertain struggle toward sanity and reality. Under the compassionate guidance of her psychiatrist, Dr. Fried, Deborah wages a war not just for her mental health, but for the right to exist in a world she has long felt unable to inhabit. Written under the pseudonym Hannah Green, this is in fact a thinly veiled autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, whose own experiences with mental illness lend the narrative an extraordinary authenticity and emotional precision. The novel stands as a landmark work in 20th-century fiction, offering a visceral and unflinching portrait of mental illness at a time when such subjects were rarely discussed with such candour and humanity. Praised by the Chicago Tribune as an electrifying novel… a rare and wonderful insight into the dark kingdom of the mind, it remains a seminal text that leaves the reader questioning the fine, fragile line between the worlds we construct and the world we share.
Author: Hannah Green
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Behind the quiet surface of a teenage girl's life lies a secret world of terrifying beauty and darkness — a place called Yr, a kingdom of the mind that is both refuge and prison. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden chronicles the harrowing yet ultimately hopeful journey of sixteen-year-old Deborah Blau, a young woman battling schizophrenia who is committed to a psychiatric institution in the 1950s, where she must choose between the seductive pull of her elaborate inner fantasy world and the painful, uncertain struggle toward sanity and reality. Under the compassionate guidance of her psychiatrist, Dr. Fried, Deborah wages a war not just for her mental health, but for the right to exist in a world she has long felt unable to inhabit. Written under the pseudonym Hannah Green, this is in fact a thinly veiled autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, whose own experiences with mental illness lend the narrative an extraordinary authenticity and emotional precision. The novel stands as a landmark work in 20th-century fiction, offering a visceral and unflinching portrait of mental illness at a time when such subjects were rarely discussed with such candour and humanity. Praised by the Chicago Tribune as an electrifying novel… a rare and wonderful insight into the dark kingdom of the mind, it remains a seminal text that leaves the reader questioning the fine, fragile line between the worlds we construct and the world we share.