TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coelho,Paulo
TI  - Veronika decides to die : : a novel of redemption 
SN  - 9780061124266 (pbk.)
AV  - PQ9698.13.O3546 V4713 2006
U1  - 869.3/42 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper Perennial
KW  - Young women
KW  - Suicidal behavior
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - READING IN ENGLISH
KW  - Psychological fiction
N1  - Previous ed.: 2001; Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more
N2  - Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything – youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting to never wake up. But she does—at a mental hospital where she is told that she has only days to live.

Inspired by events in Coelho’s own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Bold and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity
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