Trixie P. (TrixiePhilpot) reviewed on + 23 more book reviews
Since the book description in the PBS system doesn't include a description about this book, I'll put the info from the back of the book here. Note: The book includes photos in the center.
Seldom has the strange and seductive world of insanity been charted more explicitly, or more beautifully, than in this novel -- this shining story of a young girl's three years in a mental hospital and her journey back from madness to reality.
"A novel that reveals deep truths about mental illness...a rare and wonderful insight into the dark kingdom of the mind." -- Chicago Tribune
"A marvelous job of dramatizing the internal warfare in a young psychotic....With a courage that is sometimes breathtaking...she makes a faultless series of discriminations between the justifications for living in an evil and complex reality and the justifications for retreating into the security of madness...convincing and emotionally gripping." -- New York Times Book Review
Seldom has the strange and seductive world of insanity been charted more explicitly, or more beautifully, than in this novel -- this shining story of a young girl's three years in a mental hospital and her journey back from madness to reality.
"A novel that reveals deep truths about mental illness...a rare and wonderful insight into the dark kingdom of the mind." -- Chicago Tribune
"A marvelous job of dramatizing the internal warfare in a young psychotic....With a courage that is sometimes breathtaking...she makes a faultless series of discriminations between the justifications for living in an evil and complex reality and the justifications for retreating into the security of madness...convincing and emotionally gripping." -- New York Times Book Review
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