Girl, Interruptedby Susanna Kaysen |
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Detailed Personal Development Book Information
- Title:
Girl, Interrupted
- Reading Level: Paperback
- Binding: Paperback
- No. of Pages: 192
- Language:
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub. Date: 1994-04-19
- ISBN: 0679746048
- Product Size (W x H x L) inches: 5.1 x 0.6 x 7.9
- Shipping Weight: 0.4
- Average Customer Review:
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Girl, Interrupted Review
Source: Product DescriptionIn 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.