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Hannah Green, Joanne Greenberg. 3.89. 32,644 ratings1,431 reviews. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to sanity. Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive ...
Joanne Greenberg (born in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author most well known for the bestselling novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden written under the pen name of Hannah Green. It was adapted into a 1977 movie and a 2004 play of the same name. She received the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award as well as the Jewish Book ...
Her first novel, The King’s Persons, won a Jewish Book Council Award in 1963 for its portrayal of a massacre of Jews at York Castle in 1190. The following year she published I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, which was adapted as a movie in 1977 and a play in 2004. Another novel, In This Sign (1970) emerged from her work to create mental ...
Dec 30, 2008 · Joanne Greenberg's semi-autobiographical novel stands as a timeless and unforgettable portrayal of mental illness. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. 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 ...
- Joanne Greenberg
May 23, 2022 · Published in 1964 under a pseudonym and reissued this month, Greenberg’s I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a fearless coming-of-age novel about Deborah Blau, a midwestern Jewish teenage girl ...
Joanne Greenberg is an American author best known for the bestselling novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, first published under the pen-name Hannah Green. It was adapted into a 1977 film and a 2004 play. She is also the author of nineteen other books.
May 3, 2022 · ― Chicago Tribune “[Joanne Greenberg] is a living example of someone who refused the fate prescribed to her and chose instead to be many other things: clever, attentive, kind, iconoclastic, and the author of more than fifteen books on wildly varying topics. Her life as a recovered patient is not a glamorous or a tragic or a particularly ...
- Joanne Greenberg
