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Girl, interrupted / Susanna Kaysen

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: First Vintage Books editionDescription: 168 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0679746048 (pbk.)
  • 9780679746041 (pbk.)
  • 9780613377171 (Topeka)
  • 0613377176 (Topeka)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • BIO KAY 20
LOC classification:
  • RC464.K36 A3 1994
Summary: 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 document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery
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Teen Biography MVS Library Main room-Teen/Adult N- Biography (Adult/Teen) BIO KAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Donation 4008971
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Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993

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 document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery

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