Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
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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).
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.
REVIEWS
"Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny. . . [a] compelling and heartbreaking story." - Susan Cheever, The New York Times Book Review
"Tough-minded . . . darkly comic . . . written with indelible clarity." - Newsweek
"[A]n account of a disturbed girl's unwilling passage into womanhood...and here is the girl, looking into our faces with urgent eyes." - Diane Middlebrook, Washington Post Book World
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback (30th Anniversary Edition)
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0679746041
Pages: 192
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.
REVIEWS
"Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny. . . [a] compelling and heartbreaking story." - Susan Cheever, The New York Times Book Review
"Tough-minded . . . darkly comic . . . written with indelible clarity." - Newsweek
"[A]n account of a disturbed girl's unwilling passage into womanhood...and here is the girl, looking into our faces with urgent eyes." - Diane Middlebrook, Washington Post Book World
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback (30th Anniversary Edition)
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0679746041
Pages: 192