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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2000
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 to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor and Ray Charles.
A clear-sighted, unflinching work that provokes questions about our definitions of sane and insane, Kaysen’s extraordinary…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860497926 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860497926 |
| Author: | Susanna Kaysen |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2000 |
| Weight: | 158g |
| Dimensions: | 207mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Not since Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim - TIME MAGAZINE
Intelligent and painful - GUARDIANGirl, Interrupted is superb, poignant and more powerful for its lack of romantic inflation, whining, or self-congratulation - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAYSusanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted is the autobiographical story of the author’s time in a psychiatric award in 1967. Sylvia Plath was a patient at the same hospital in the early 1950s so inevitably comparisons have been made between Plath’s The Bell Jar - Kaysen’s account goes further and questions the standard notions of sanity and insanity. Her plausible voice allows the reader to accept a world whereAbout The Author
Susanna Kaysen
Susanna Kaysen was born in 1948 and brought up in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she still lives. She has written two novels, ASA, AS I KNEW HIM and FAR AFIELD. While working on the latter, memories of her two year stay at McLean’s psychiatric hospital began to emerge. With the help of a lawyer she obtained her 350 page file from the hospital. GIRL, INTERRUPTED followed.
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