I Never Promised You a Rose Garden was the first book my parents ever seriously considered not allowing me to read. In the end, they trusted me, even at age twelve, and I bought it at a local bookstore—still have my copy. I read everything I could find about insanity. The film version of Theodore Isaac Rubin's David and Lisa came out that year too, but I didn't read the novellas till I was in high school. I found Things Fall Apart when I was 18 in college, and it changed my life. I taught that novel.
btw, I think you might be remembering the film version of Little Big Man. I recall being furious at that scene as unfaithful to the novel. But perhaps I misremember. The book is funny, but that moment was not played for laughs, as I recall.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden was the first book my parents ever seriously considered not allowing me to read. In the end, they trusted me, even at age twelve, and I bought it at a local bookstore—still have my copy. I read everything I could find about insanity. The film version of Theodore Isaac Rubin's David and Lisa came out that year too, but I didn't read the novellas till I was in high school. I found Things Fall Apart when I was 18 in college, and it changed my life. I taught that novel.
btw, I think you might be remembering the film version of Little Big Man. I recall being furious at that scene as unfaithful to the novel. But perhaps I misremember. The book is funny, but that moment was not played for laughs, as I recall.