Description
Format: | Paperback |
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Language: | English |
ISBN: | 0679746048 |
ISBN13: | 9780679746041 |
Release Date: | April 1994 |
Publisher: | Vintage |
Length: | 192 Pages |
Weight: | 0.72 lbs. |
Dimensions: | 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.0" |
The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was 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.
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