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The bestselling book that inspired the cult classic film, Girl, Interrupted, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.
“Not since Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim” TIME
“Intelligent and painful” Guardian
“Poignant, astonishing memoir” New York Times
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.
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| Weight | 0.2 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.3 × 15.2 × 20.7 cm |
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| Pages | 158 |
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| Year Published | 2000-2-17 |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| About The Author | Susanna Kaysen (1948) was brought up in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she still lives. She has written two novels, ASA, AS I KNEW HIM and FAR AFIELD. While working on the latter, memories of her two year stay at McLean's Psychiatric Hospital began to emerge. With the help of a lawyer she obtained her 350 page file from the hospital. GIRL, INTERRUPTED followed. |
Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the world responds to complicated young women — Scarlett Curtis Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny . . . A compelling and heartbreaking story ― New York Times Book Review A cool, elegant and unexpectedly funny memoir ― The Times Memorable and stirring . . . Fascinating. A powerful examination not only of Kaysen's own imperfections but of those of the system that diagnosed her ― Vogue Not since Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim ― Time Intelligent and painful ― Guardian Girl, Interrupted is superb, poignant and more powerful for its lack of romantic inflation, whining, or self-congratulation ― Scotland on Sunday |
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