Girl, Interrupted

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MEMOIR/PSYCHOLOGY
"Searing Girl. Interrupted captures an exquisite range of self-awareness between madness and insight." — The Boston Globe

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 on 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 l<eepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the l^aleidoscopically 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.... Tovább

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MEMOIR/PSYCHOLOGY
"Searing Girl. Interrupted captures an exquisite range of self-awareness between madness and insight." — The Boston Globe

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 on 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 l<eepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the l^aleidoscopically 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.
"Tough-minded darkly comic written with indelible clarity,"
—Newsweek
"Ingenious designed to provoke unanswerable questions. Kaysen does not point morals or impose insights, but lets adroit imagery, powerful scene-writing and the silence between chapters do the work of judgment. [It is] an account of a disturbed girl's unwilling passage into womanhood and here is the girl, looking into our faces with urgent eyes."
-Diane Middlebrook, The Washington Post Book World Vissza