Girl, Interrupted
Author : Susanna Kaysen
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-12-02
ISBN 13 : 0349016798
File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI
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Download pdf or read book Girl, Interrupted written by Susanna Kaysen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.