Girl, Interrupted book by Susanna Kaysen
By Susanna KaysenGirl, Interrupted book by Susanna Kaysen
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was sent to McLean Hospital, where 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, Ray Charles--and 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 gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
Book details
- 170 pages
- English
- 0679423664
- 9780679423669
About Susanna Kaysen
susanna kaysen (born november 11, 1948) is an american author, best known for her 1993 memoir girl, interrupted.kaysen was born and raised in cambridge, ma Read More about Susanna Kaysen
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