Girl, Interrupted - Hardcover

Kaysen, Susanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679423664 ISBN 13: 9780679423669

Verlag: Turtle Bay Books, 1993

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Book by Kaysen Susanna

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Spare vignettes recall the two years that the author spent in the McLean psychiatric hospital and investigate the reality of the hospital world. By the author of Asa, As I Knew Him. 17,500 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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er 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Verlag: Turtle Bay Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679423664
• ISBN 13: 9780679423669
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1