{"product_id":"i-never-promised-you-a-rose-garden-paperback","title":"I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoanne Greenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEsmé Weijun Wang\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eJoanne Greenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe multimillion-copy bestselling modern classic of autobiographical fiction about a young woman's struggle with mental health, featuring a new foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Schizophrenias\u003c\/i\u003e, and a new afterword by the author \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA semiautobiographical novel originally published under the pen name Hannah Green just a year after Sylvia Plath's \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e--a very different portrait of psychological breakdown--\u003ci\u003eI Never Promised You a Rose Garden\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoanne Greenberg\u003c\/b\u003e is an internationally renowned, award-winning author of sixteen novels and four collections of short stories. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she graduated from American University, where she majored in anthropology and English, and also studied at the University of London and the University of Colorado. Her second novel, \u003ci\u003eI Never Promised You a Rose Garden, \u003c\/i\u003epublished in 1964, has sold millions of copies and was adapted into a 1977 movie and a 2004 play of the same name. Greenberg lives with her husband, Albert, near Lookout Mountain, Colorado, where she writes daily, tutors Latin and Hebrew, is active in the Beth Evergreen congregation, has been an adjunct professor of cultural anthropology and fiction writing at the Colorado School of Mines, and has volunteered as an EMT. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEsmé Weijun Wang\u003c\/b\u003e (foreword) is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the essay collection \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Schizophrenias\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Border of Paradise.\u003c\/i\u003e She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. 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