Girl, interrupted
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing…
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- Full title :Girl, interrupted / Susanna Kaysen.
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In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
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- Publication Date:©1993
- Edition:First Vintage books edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1993
Notes
Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993.
The Physical Object
- Description:168 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0679746048, 9780679746041, 9780613377171, 0613377176, 9781439558072, 1439558078, 0679423664, 9780679423669, 0606187383, 9780606187381, 9780329615680, 0329054619, 0329615688, 9780329054618
- oclc:ocm29386783
- LC Classification:RC464.K36
- Dewey Decimal:B
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