Girl, Interrupted - Hardcover

Kaysen, Susanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679423664 ISBN 13: 9780679423669

Verlag: Turtle Bay Books, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Susanna Kaysen is also the author of the novels Asa, As I Knew Him and Far Afield.  She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Aus dem Klappentext

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

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