{"product_id":"the-snake-pit-9781598536805","title":"The Snake Pit","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 75th anniversary edition of the landmark novel that forever changed the way we think about mental illness and its treatment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDo you hear voices?\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuffering 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspiration for the 1948 film starring Olivia de Havilland, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Snake Pit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar \u003c\/i\u003eand Ken Kesey’s \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest\u003c\/i\u003e—two books it influenced.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62345031844227,"sku":"9781598536805","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9781598536805.jpg?v=1786256739","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/the-snake-pit-9781598536805","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}