The Snake Pit (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by The Library of America, New York, 2021
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Paperback. A 75th anniversary edition of the landmark novel that forever changed the way we think about mental illness and its treatmentDo you hear voices? Virginia Stuart Cunningham, a journalist and novelist with a wicked sense of humor, is sitting on a park bench waiting for her husband when an intrusive stranger begins to pester her with nonsensical questions. Is he mad? Or is she? So begins this brilliant literary exploration of mental illness, a novel that asks us to reconsider what counts as sanity in a crazy world. Suffering a breakdown in 1941, thirty-five-year-old novelist Mary Jane Ward was diagnosed, or perhaps misdiagnosed, with schizophrenia and committed to a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York. From that horrific experience came this gripping story.Inspiration for the 1948 film starring Olivia de Havilland, The Snake Pit sparked important investigative journalism and state legislation to reform the care and treatment of people with mental illness. It belongs in the company of Sylvia Plaths The Bell Jar and Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nesttwo books it influenced.This authoritative Library of America edition includes an afterword by Wards cousin, Larry Lockridge, and a Reading Group Guide featuring additional material about Ward and the real-life roots of the novel. A patient at Juniper Hill, a mental institution, novelist Virginia Cunningham's only ties to the outside world is through her husband. Virginia's unreliable observations of the patients and staff at Juniper Hill reveal the complexity of her mental state. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Snake Pit (Paperback)
- Author
- Mary Jane Ward
- Publisher
- The Library of America, New York
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 159853680X
- ISBN 13
- 9781598536805
Do you hear voices? Virginia Stuart Cunningham, a journalist and novelist with a wicked sense of humor, is sitting on a park bench waiting for her husband when an intrusive stranger begins to pester her with nonsensical questions. Is he mad? Or is she? So begins this brilliant literary exploration of mental illness, a novel that asks us to reconsider what counts as sanity in a crazy world.
Suffering a breakdown in 1941, thirty-five-year-old novelist Mary Jane Ward was diagnosed, or perhaps misdiagnosed, with schizophrenia and committed to a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York. From that horrific experience came this gripping story.
Inspiration for the 1948 film starring Olivia de Havilland, The Snake Pit sparked important investigative journalism and state legislation to reform the care and treatment of people with mental illness. It belongs in the company of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest--two books it influenced.
This authoritative Library of America edition includes an afterword by Ward's cousin, Larry Lockridge, and a Reading Group Guide featuring additional material about Ward and the real-life roots of the novel.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Larry Lockridge is Professor Emeritus of English at New York University, and has held Danforth, Woodrow Wilson, and Guggenheim fellowships. He is the author of several books, including a biography of his father, Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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