I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
$22.75
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
20 September 2022
Summary
With a Foreword by Esme Weijun Wang and an Afterword by the author
“She fought them with her head and her teeth while the restraints were being tied, trying, doglike, to bite herself”
Sixteen-year-old Deborah’s identity is shattering, as she retreats further and further from the ‘normal’ world into her imaginary kingdom of Yr, a fantastical inner refuge both lush and horrifying. Sent to a psychiatric hospital, she must, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, try to find a way…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241563427 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241563429 |
| Author: | Joanne Greenberg |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 20 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
Intensely moving
Marvelous… With a courage that is sometimes breathtaking… (Greenberg) makes a faultless series of discriminations between the justifications for living in an evil and complex reality and the justifications for retreating into the security of madness * New York Times Book Review *
A rare and wonderful insight into the dark kingdom of the mind * Chicago Tribune *
Intensely moving * The Spectator *
About The Author
Joanne Greenberg
Joanne Greenberg is the author of nineteen books, including I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. She received the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award as well as the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction in 1963 for her novel The King’s Persons. Her novel In This Sign was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie called Love Is Never Silent. Greenberg was a volunteer firefighter and paramedic for thirteen years.
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