Girl, interrupted
Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-2023
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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 memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers.
Main title:
Girl, interrupted / Susanna Kaysen.
Author:
Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-, author
Edition:
30th anniversary edition / with a new introduction by the author.
Imprint:
London : Virago, 2023.
Collation:
xiii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Virago modern classics ; 727.
ISBN:
9780349017907 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2595569
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