Girl, Interrupted

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Publication Year: 1994 Language: English Item Weight: 6 Oz Illustrator: Yes Book Title: Girl, Interrupted : a Memoir height: 0.5 in Number of Pages: 192 Pages Format: Trade Paperback Author: Susanna Kaysen Edition: 30 Item Width: 5.2 in Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Topic: Women's Health, Personal Memoirs, General, Women's Studies, Mental Health, Psychiatry / General Item Length: 8 in Genre: Health & Fitness, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Medical width: 5.2 in Item Height: 0.5 in ISBN: 9780679746041

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Girl, Interrupted. Title: Girl, Interrupted. Language: English. Number of Pages: 192. Weight: 0.4 lbs. Publication Date: 1994-04-19. Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: Girl, Interrupted ISBN13: 9780679746041 ISBN10: 0679746048 Author: Kaysen, Susanna (Author) Description: 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 In The Late 1960S, The Author Spent Nearly Two Years On The Ward For Teenage Girls At Mclean Hospital, A Renowned Psychiatric Facility Her Memoir Encompasses Horror And Razor-Edged Perceptions, While Providing Vivid Portraits Of Her Fellow Patients And Their Keepers Searing Captures An Exquisite Range Of Self-Awareness Between Madness And Insight --Boston Globe Binding: Paperback, Paperback Publisher: Vintage Publication Date: 1994-04-19 Weight: 0.4 lbs Dimensions: 0.6'' H x 8'' L x 5.1'' W Number of Pages: 192 Language: English