Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * 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. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review).

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was 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.

Susanna Kaysen is the author of Asa, As I Knew Him, and Far Afield, as well as Girl, Interrupted and The Camera My Mother Gave Me, autobiographies. She resides in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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ISBN 13	9780679746041
ISBN 10	0679746048
Title	Girl, Interrupted
Author	Susanna Kaysen
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1994-04-19
Number of pages	192
Prizes	Winner of YALSA Best Books for Young Adults.
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