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H

H

Shepard, Elizabeth

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ISBN10: 0140243895
ISBN13: 9780140243895
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jun 1 1996
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.05 Depth: 7.82
Language: English
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

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