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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

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The multimillion-copy bestselling modern classic of autobiographical fiction about a young woman's struggle with mental health

After making an attempt on her own life, sixteen-year-old Deborah Blau is diagnosed with schizophrenia. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a psychiatric hospital many hours from her home in suburban Chicago. Here she will spend the next three years, trying, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, to find a path back to her "normal" life, and to emerge from the imaginary Kingdom of Yr in which she has sought refuge.

A semiautobiographical novel originally published under the pen name Hannah Green just a year after Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar—a very different portrait of psychological breakdown—I Never Promised You a Rose Garden remains, more than half a century later, a timeless and ultimately hopeful book, ripe for rediscovery by a new generation eager to erase the stigma of mental illness.

"I adore this book. ... I continue to marvel at how Greenberg makes visceral the agony of psychosis. ... [She] is not afraid to challenge the reader with a true view of the so-called sane world, to hold a crazy candle to reality, and to say, What can we see now? Is the darkness only inside, or is it outside, too?"―Esmé Weijun Wang


Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781501960390
  • File size: 271858 KB
  • Release date: September 1, 2017
  • Duration: 09:26:22

0 of 1 copy available
Wait time: About 6 weeks

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subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:960
Text Difficulty:5-6

The multimillion-copy bestselling modern classic of autobiographical fiction about a young woman's struggle with mental health

After making an attempt on her own life, sixteen-year-old Deborah Blau is diagnosed with schizophrenia. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a psychiatric hospital many hours from her home in suburban Chicago. Here she will spend the next three years, trying, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, to find a path back to her "normal" life, and to emerge from the imaginary Kingdom of Yr in which she has sought refuge.

A semiautobiographical novel originally published under the pen name Hannah Green just a year after Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar—a very different portrait of psychological breakdown—I Never Promised You a Rose Garden remains, more than half a century later, a timeless and ultimately hopeful book, ripe for rediscovery by a new generation eager to erase the stigma of mental illness.

"I adore this book. ... I continue to marvel at how Greenberg makes visceral the agony of psychosis. ... [She] is not afraid to challenge the reader with a true view of the so-called sane world, to hold a crazy candle to reality, and to say, What can we see now? Is the darkness only inside, or is it outside, too?"―Esmé Weijun Wang



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