Girl, Interrupted Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted

A Memoir

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Publisher Description

30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review).

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was 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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
1994
April 19
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
192
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
8.2
MB

Customer Reviews

MakMagnificent ,

5 Star Book

Big fan of the movie, and enjoyed the book 10 times more.

TheTattooedLady💀 ,

Girl Interrupted ❤️

I have always been obsessed with the movie, so I thought I’d enjoy the book too, I definitely wasn’t wrong in that thought. It’s a good read, you get to see the other sides of things. As someone who has depressive tendencies, has depression disorder and a psychology major of 4.5 years I adore this book. ❤️

poetgirl123 ,

Read It In One Sitting

Both heartbreaking and profound. Questions the line between sanity and insanity.

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