Girl, interrupted
Title
:
Girl, interrupted
Author
:
Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-
ISBN
:
9780679746041
Edition
:
1st Vintage Books ed.
Publication Information
:
New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
Physical Description
:
168 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
General Note
:
Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993.
Reading Level
:
760 L Lexile
Personal Subject
:
Kaysen, Susanna, 1948--Health.
Subject Term
:
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
Psychiatric hospital care -- Biography.
Local Subject
:
Teen nonfiction collection.
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.
Library | Call Number | Status |
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Stillwater Public Library | TEEN 921 KAYSEN | Checked Out |