I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Joanne Greenberg
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Joanne Greenberg
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Author: Joanne Greenberg

Narrator: Amanda Leigh Cobb

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/08/2017

Categories: Fiction, Psychological, Women


Synopsis

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

Reviews

Goodreads review by Majenta on April 05, 2019

"'Oh, do come in, dear Doctor. You are just in time for the patient's soothing tea and the end of the world.'" p. 17. "'The HIDDEN strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...it is our only ally.'" Dr. Fried, page 19. "'I'm a hundred square yards sane.' If there were such things as man-hours and l......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on July 17, 2007

I first read this in 1966 when I was 13 and in the 8th grade and it became my favorite book and remained my favorite book throughout high school. I reread it many times, although it's been years since my last reading. This is a story of a young woman ages 16-19 who is suffering from severe mental il......more

Goodreads review by Nina (ninjasbooks) on July 03, 2023

I read this book many, many years ago, but I still remember it clearly. It was such a wonderful book, one of those rare ones where you truly glimpse what it’s like to be a prisoner of your own mind. Even if her experiences are very different from mine, I got her because it was written convincingly a......more

Goodreads review by Brittni on February 12, 2016

To get below the surface of this book, one must invest himself/herself. This I was willing to do. As a fellow sufferer of mental illness, I long for memoirs of those who've gone through the same as me. It's easy to read a book without really getting it, and that's why the people in other reviews hav......more

Goodreads review by Yakup on November 19, 2013

Tüm insanların tamamen sağlıklı olduklarına inanmadığımdan ve de günlük belirli boyutlarda psikolojik tramvalar yaşadıklarından, bu tarz eserler bazen bizim bir miktar iç dünyalarımızın yansıtırlar.Böylelikle Dr.Fried'ın Deborah'a söylediği ''Sana Gül Bahçesi Vadetmedim.'' cümlesi yerinde olmuştur.K......more