Girl, Interrupted: A Memoir
Jun 2013 · Sold by Vintage
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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).
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.
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.
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4.4
250 reviews
Tiffany Marshall
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January 23, 2015
An honest, griping tale of one young woman's journey with mental illness, fighting for herself instead of always against, and learn to embrace the things we cannot change that make us all individuals and amazing. This book literally changed my life! It's story spoke to me in a way no other book had at a time I needed it the most. An absolute must read!
11 people found this review helpful
Quinn Rogers
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April 21, 2017
The Movie wasn't bad, but the book has zero character development or back story so if you're not 100% focused on every character you'll easily find yourself not knowing what's going on at all. It's incredibly boring and I can't get past the lack of effort put into introducing characters in a way that you'll actually remember them, the movie fixes a lot of these problems
8 people found this review helpful
Amber Forshay
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November 30, 2014
The movie was definitely better, but its only a 200 pager, so I don't regret spending the time reading the book. I am however very much ashamed to that I spent 10 dollars on it. It is so not worth 10 dollars
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About the author
SUSANNA KAYSEN has written the novels Asa, As I Knew Him and Far Afield and the memoirs Girl, Interrupted and The Camera My Mother Gave Me. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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