| Girl, Interrupted | |
| ISBN: 9780679746041 Author: Kaysen, Susanna (Author) Publisher: Vintage Published: April 1994 Retail: $16.00 OUR PRICE: $10.34 You Save 35% Binding Type: Paperback Annotation: 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 documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 93043339 |
| Lexile Measure: 760 |
| Physical Information: 8.00" H x 800.00" L x 5.10" W |
| Bargain Category: Social Issues, High School, Health, Biographies |
| Grade level(s): 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th |