num_pages: 252
description: 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, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to help herself."I wrote this novel, which is a fictionalized autobiography, to give a picture of what being schizophrenic feels like and what can be accomplished with a trusting relationship between a gifted therapist and a willing patient. It is not a case history or study. I like to think it is a hymn to reality." —Joanne Greenberg
language: English
title: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
titlecomplete: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
characters: Dr. Fried (Furii), Esther Blau, Helene, Jacob Blau, Miss Coral, Carla, Deborah Blau
genres: Realistic Fiction, Mental Health, Novels, Young Adult, Mental Illness, Literature, Psychology, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 31473
publisher: Signet