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Girl Interrupted

by Susanna Kaysen

Synopsis

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, Interruptedis a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

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Book Information

Copyright year 1993
ISBN-13 9780679746041
ISBN-10 0679746048
Class Copyright
Publisher Vintage Books
Subject Biography & Autobiography;Health & Fitness;Medical
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 168
Shelf No. HB270
Grade Range 11-12
Ages 17-99
Lexile 760L