Girl, Interrupted (Paperback, 1st Vintage Books ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1900
First published:	April 1994
Authors:	Susanna Kaysen
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	168
Edition:	1st Vintage Books ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-74604-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-679-74604-8
Barcode:	9780679746041

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