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.
His 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 Yorkmagazine
By:
Elizabeth Shepard Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 196mm,
Width: 130mm,
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 159g ISBN:9780140243895 ISBN 10: 0140243895 Pages: 176 Publication Date:01 June 1996 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Winner of Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.
