I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
by Hannah Green
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Aided by a brilliant psychiatrist, and accompanied by her deeply concerned-and terrified-parents, Deborah must undertake a three-year struggle to resist the allure of madness, and rejoin the real world. Poignant and compelling, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a "convincing and emotionally gripping" read that introduces an unforgettable young heroine-and stands as a modern classic on the topic of mental illness.
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Ich hab dir nie einen Rosengarten versprochen: Bericht einer Heilung
1978, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag
Paperback
in German
3499141558 9783499141553
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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
Mar 1, 1965, Signet Books, a div. of New American Library
Paperback
in English
- Over 3,000,000 copies sold prior to this printing
0451137477 9780451137470
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Originally published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.
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Psychological novel based on the author's experience of schizophrenia. A sixteen-year-old girl is committed to a mental hospital when she retreats into a disturbing fantasy world. This is the story of her journey back to sanity.
Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.
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