Twelve stories about people both young and old dramatize man's follies in everyday life

Rites of Passage

Literature & Fiction

GREENBERG, JOANNE

Short Stories & Anthologies

Henry Holt Co.

The King's Persons

Founder's Praise

In this three-generation saga about life in a Colorado farm town, Joanne Greenberg retells the story of Jesus and the founding of the Christian church - through a brilliant metaphor of a fictionalized religious sect. She explores the meaning of God, Life, destiny, and good versus evil - and weaves this all together into a rich, gripping, and masterful tale. I've been on a mission to read all the works of Joanne Greenberg, and one after another they deliver. This one is no exception. In "Founder's Praise" a highly verbally and emotionally shut-down man starts getting visions and hearing "the voice of God" - insights into truth, life, and philosophy. As the story progresses others become his followers - which he doesn't want or like - and twist his visions to their own purposes...with devastating and very realistic results. In this way Greenberg shows how far a church can stray from the truth of its founder...

Contemporary

King's Persons

Gollancz

A thread of fantasy weaves together stories that deal with crimes--actual or theological, serious or comical-and with such criminals as a woman who has lost faith and Talmudic scholars who steal time

High Crimes and Misdemeanors

When Grace Dowben, the middle-aged mother of two estranged children, meets Ben Sloan, the new Jewish fellow-member of a local volunteer fire and rescue squad, their camaraderie grows into love

Season of Delight

The growing relationship between Eric Gordon, whose irresponsibility caused a car accident that killed a man and his three children, and Helen Gerson, the widow of the victim, has profound consequences for both their lives

The Far Side of Victory

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

The highly acclaimed novel of a family whose love and courage enable them to survive in the silent world of the deaf.

In This Sign

Twelve stories about people both young and old dramatize man's follies in everyday life

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

The multimillion-copy bestselling modern classic of autobiographical fiction about a young woman’s struggle with mental health, featuring a new foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang, the New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias, and a new afterword by the author\nA Penguin Classic\nAfter making an attempt on her own life, sixteen-year-old Deborah Blau is diagnosed with schizophrenia. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a psychiatric hospital many hours from her home in suburban Chicago. Here she will spend the next three years, trying, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, to find a path back to her “normal” life, and to emerge from the imaginary Kingdom of Yr in which she has sought refuge.\nA semiautobiographical novel originally published under the pen name Hannah Green just a year after Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar--a very different portrait of psychological breakdown--I Never Promised You a Rose Garden remains, more than half a century later, a timeless and ultimately hopeful book, ripe for rediscovery by a new generation eager to erase the stigma of mental illness.\nFor more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Genre Fiction

Penguin Classics

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Rites of Passage

The King's Persons

Founder's Praise

King's Persons

High Crimes and Misdemeanors

Season of Delight

The Far Side of Victory

In This Sign

Rites of Passage

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden