Girl, interrupted
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1994.
Format
Book
Edition
First Vintage books edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
616.89 KAYSEN
1 available
616.89 KAYSEN
1 available
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult) | 616.89 KAYSEN | Shelving Cart |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Kaysen, Susanna, -- 1948- -- Mental health.
Mental illness -- Biography.
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Massachusetts.
Mentally ill women -- Personal narratives.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
Teenagers -- Mental health -- Biography.
Teenagers with mental disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Personal narratives.
Mental illness -- Biography.
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Massachusetts.
Mentally ill women -- Personal narratives.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
Teenagers -- Mental health -- Biography.
Teenagers with mental disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Personal narratives.
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Published
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1994.
Edition
First Vintage books edition.
Physical Desc
168 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 5.4, 5 Points
Level 5.4, 5 Points
Notes
General Note
Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993.
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 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 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.
Target Audience
Young Adult.