Girl, Interrupted

Girl, InterruptedIn 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 in 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

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 in 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 document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/19/1994
ISBN: 9780679746041
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/28/1994

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 36631 / Girl, Interrupted
Reading Level: 5.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 5