Girl, interrupted
1st Vintage Books ed.
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Word Count
42,000 words, Guess
Page Count
168 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivegirlinterrupted00kays
- ISBN-139780679746041
- ISBN-100679746048
- Goodreads68783
- Library of Congress Control Number93043339
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780679746041
- Open LibraryOL1431841M
Classifications
- DDC616.89/0092
- DDCB
- LCCRC464.K36 A3 1994
and 1 more
- LCCRC464.K36A3 1994
Description
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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