I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
- Auteur: Joanne Greenberg (Verenigde Staten)
- Pseudoniem: Hannah Green
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
- Eerste uitgave: 16 april 1964
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin
- Omvang: 304 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Joanne Greenberg I Never Promised You a Rose Garden recensie, review en informatie
- “A rare and wonderful insight into the dark kingdom of the mind.” (Chicago Tribune)
- “Marvellous … a courage that is sometimes breathtaking.” (The New York Times Book Review)
Flaptekst van de roman uit 1964 van Joanne Greenberg alis Hannah Green
She fought them with her head and her teeth while the restraints were being tied, trying, doglike, to bite herself.
Sixteen-year-old Deborah’s identity is shattering, as she retreats further and further from the ‘normal’ world into her imaginary kingdom of Yr, a fantastical inner refuge both lush and horrifying. Sent to a psychiatric hospital, she must, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, try to find a way back. Joanne Greenberg’s fictionalized autobiography became a global bestseller on publication in 1964, and remains a wrenching account of mental illness.
Joanne Greenberg (12 September 1932, New York City) is the 
author of nineteen books, including I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, first published under the pseudonym name Hannah Green. She received the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award as well as the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction in 1963 for her novel The King’s Persons. Her novel In This Sign was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie called Love Is Never Silent. Greenberg was a volunteer firefighter and paramedic for thirteen years.