Girl, Interrupted (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679746041)

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.

Author: Susanna Kaysen
ISBN-10: 0679746048
ISBN-13: 9780679746041
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 04/19/1994
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 36631 / Girl, Interrupted


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/28/1994