€11.70
The bestselling book that inspired the cult classic film, Girl, Interrupted, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.
“Not since Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim” TIME
“Intelligent and painful” Guardian
“Poignant, astonishing memoir” New York Times
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.
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In 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen was sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. In this, her memoir of her time there, she questions our definitions of sane and insane. Girl, Interrupted is now a major film starring Winona Ryder.
| Weight | 0.158 kg |
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| Dimensions | 20.7 × 15.2 × 1.3 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 168 |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 616.890092 (edition:21) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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