H - Softcover

Shepard, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140243895 ISBN 13: 9780140243895

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Recommended reading by the National Mental Health Association. 
 
To his mother, twelve-year-old Benjamin Sherman is an object of pity and anxiety. To his father, he is bizarre and embarrassing. To his psychiatrist, he is a case study in mental illness. To the counselors at the camp where he is spending his summer, Benjamin is a “freaky kid” who shuns his peers and is strangely—and perhaps dangerously—attached to his best friend, Elliot, a stuffed letter H.
 
Through the letters of his sister, mother, father, camp counselors, and psychiatrist—and, most touchingly, through those Benjamin writes to Elliot—this audacious and utterly unsentimental novel gives us a moving and sometimes shocking intimacy with a child whose disorder may be a kind of fragile genius. H is an astute, sympathetic evocation of the state we persist in calling “madness.”
 
“A new and mind-boggling perspective on mental illness from the point of view of the sufferer and those who would love and care about him. . . . H is a very poignant, enthralling debut.”—The Boston Globe
 
“Shepard is a reverse archaeologist, designing a tiny contemporary lost world for readers to excavate. . . . Everything matters. . . Shepard gets everything right.”—New York magazine

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A critically lauded novel traces the troubled inner life of a mentally ill twelve-year-old boy through the letters of his family, father, camp counselors, and psychiatrist, none of whom offers the solace he finds in a stuffed toy. A first novel. Reprint. 12,000 first printing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0140243895
• ISBN 13: 9780140243895
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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