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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 documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

Book details

• Full title: Girl, Interrupted
• Author: Susanna Kaysen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780679746041
• ISBN: 0679746048
• ID: 11010564
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 180 g
• Dimensions: 132 × 201 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 1994

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