GREEN, Hannah (Joanne Greenberg).
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston , 1964.
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"Measure the hate you fell now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity to love and to feel Joy and to have compassion." First Edition of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden; Lengthily Signed by the Author
First edition of the author's semi-autobiographical modern classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author as Joanne Greenberg and her pseudonym "Hannah Green", as follows, "Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity to love and to feel joy and to have compassion." "Hannah Green" Joanne Greenberg 2015." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. An exceptional inscription.
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 rare and wonderful insight into the dark kingdom of the mind" (Chicago Tribune). It is the basis for the 1977 film starring Bibi Andersson and Kathleen Quinlan.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
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