Girl, interrupted
Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-2025
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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.
Main title:
Girl, interrupted / Susanna Kaysen.
Author:
Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-, author
Imprint:
London : Virago, 2025.
Collation:
192 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Turtle Bay, 1993.
ISBN:
9780349019598 (pbk)
Dewey class:
616.890092
LC class:
RC464.K36
Local class:
F/ Senior fiction
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4047615