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Mar 21, 2006 · Craig's suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio. There, Craig is finally able to …
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It's Kind of a Funny Story is a 2006 novel by American author Ned Vizzini. The book was inspired by Vizzini's own brief hospitalization for depression in November 2004. [1] Ned Vizzini later died by suicide [2] on December 19, 2013. The book received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association. [3]
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May 1, 2007 · Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan’s Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does.
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It's Kind of a Funny Story|Paperback - Barnes & Noble
May 1, 2007 · Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness. For a novel about depression, it’s definitely a funny story. “Funny… Vizzini supplies personal insights and a clever, self-deprecating tone that make the book an entertaining read.”
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Mar 1, 2021 · The book “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” (2006) follows a young teenage boy who struggles with depression as well and chronicles the days he spends in a psychiatric hospital, also in Brooklyn, after contemplating taking his own life. New York Magazine says, “It’s terrific: funny, incisive, disarming.”
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Apr 20, 2024 · “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” is a young adult novel by Ned Vizzini. It follows Craig, an ambitious teenager struggling with severe depression. Overwhelmed by academic pressures and his own anxieties, he checks himself into a psychiatric hospital.
Book Review: It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini - The Bookish Elf
Apr 21, 2020 · It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini is a wonderfully sensitive and gentle novel about a teen thinking about suicide, and how he learns to control his depression. The novel is great read for teens and their parents.