I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
"Measure the hate you fell now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity to love and to feel Joy and to have compassion": I Never Promised You a Rose Garden; Signed by Hannah Green
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
GREEN, Hannah [Joanne Greenberg].
$975.00
Item Number: 147081
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.
First edition, early printing of the author’s semi-autobiographical modern classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page using her pseudonym and real name, “Hannah Green Joanne Greenberg.” Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a chip to the crown of the spine. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. Uncommon signed.
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.
