Name: I Never Promised you a Rose Garden
SKU: 54138435
Price: 22.90 EUR
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Author: Esmé Weijun Wang
ISBN: 9780143136996

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Epilogue by

Preface by

Publisher

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.7x13.3x2.1 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9780143136996

Synopsis "I Never Promised you a Rose Garden "

The 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 New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias, and a new afterword by the author A Penguin Classic 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. For 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.

Esmé Weijun Wang

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Esmé Weijun Wang is an American writer, essayist, and mental health advocate born in the Midwest, daughter of Taiwanese immigrants. Her work explores the intersections of identity, mental illness, and creativity.

She is the author of the novel The Border of Paradise (2016), a gothic family drama that was highlighted as one of the best books of the year by NPR and Electric Literature. Her collection of essays The Collected Schizophrenias (2019) became a New York Times bestseller and earned her the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, the Whiting Award, and inclusion in Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists” list in 2017.

Wang has been recognized for her honest and nuanced approach to mental health, especially in her own experience with schizoaffective disorder. In 2013, she suffered from Cotard's syndrome, a rare condition in which people believe they are dead. This experience inspired her to found The Unexpected Shape Writing Academy, a space for writers facing physical or mental limitations.

In addition to her literary work, Wang has been invited to share her story on media outlets like the Today Show, NPR, and CBC, and has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Flavorwire.

She currently resides in San Francisco, where she continues to write and teach, demonstrating that creativity can flourish even amidst adversity.

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