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PUBLISHER TURTLE BAY BOOKS
©1993
ISBN-10 0679423664
ISBN-13 9780679423669
FORMAT Hardcover
Size 8.5 x 5.75 x 0.75
Weight 0.75
PUBLISHED 1993-06-01
FICTION
From Strand Bookstore
A tale of the stupidity of our psychological system, and how it affects a young girl.
From the Publisher
Spare vignettes recall the two years that the author spent in the McLean psychiatric hospital and investigate the reality of the hospital world. By the author of Asa, As I Knew Him.
Review
Lisa Schwarzbaum -
Entertainment Weekly
"Susanna Kaysen's concisely vivid account of her two-year stay at a famous psychiatric hospital in the late 1960s spares no one, least of all herself."
Review
New York Times Book Review
"Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny."
More about the book
Susanna Kaysen entered a psychiatric institution when she was 18 for an extended rest. In GIRL, INTERRUPTED, she writes about this period of her life, revealing not only the intricacies of the mind, as observed in herself and her ward-mates, but also the intricacies of the institution. This memoir has touched many people and, in 1999, was released as a successful motion picture.
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