I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Softcover

Greenberg, Joanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451211200 ISBN 13: 9780451211200

Publisher: NAL Trade, 2004

Synopsis

A new edition of the best-selling classic novel chronicles the determined three-year battle of a mentally ill but perceptive teenage girl against the mad world of her own creation. Reprint.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Joanne Greenberg's semi-autobiographical novel stands as a timeless and unforgettable portrayal of mental illness.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Enveloped in the dark inner kingdom of her schizophrenia, sixteen-year-old Deborah is haunted by private tormentors that isolate her from the outside world. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a mental hospital where she will spend the next three years battling to regain her sanity with the help of a gifted psychiatrist. As Deborah struggles toward the possibility of the "normal" life she and her family hope for, the reader is inexorably drawn into her private suffering and deep determination to confront her demons. A modern classic, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden remains every bit as poignant, gripping, and relevant today as when it was first published.

"A rare and wonderful insight into the dark kingdom of the mind."―Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

Joanne Greenberg (AKA Hanna Green) was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1932. She graduated from the University of Colorado and the University of London, England. The author of many award-winning novels including In This Sign, she lives in a mountaintop home in Colorado with her husband and their two sons.

About this edition

• Publisher: NAL Trade
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0451211200
• ISBN 13: 9780451211200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288