- Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Mental illness, Mental Depression
A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ned Vizzini
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 444
- Publisher
- Tantor Audio, LA BELLE COLERE, sjsjah
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- tur, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780786851966
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First sentence
“It's so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself.”
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