30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'Girl,Interrupted is a beautiful,complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new,brave,nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the world responds to complicated young women'SCARLETT CURTIS'Poignant,honest and triumphantly funny...A compelling and heartbreaking story'NEW YORK TIMESA 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.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.The bestselling memoir that inspired the cult classic film,starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780349017907Number of pages: 192Weight: 155 gDimensions: 196 x 126 x 18 mm
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Girl,Interrupted is a beautiful,complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new,brave,nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the world responds to complicated young womenPoignant,honest and triumphantly funny...A compelling and heartbreaking storyA cool,elegant and unexpectedly funny memoirMemorable and stirring...Fascinating. A powerful examination not only of Kaysen's own imperfections but of those of the system that diagnosed herNot since Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaimIntelligent and painfulGirl,Interrupted is superb,poignant and more powerful for its lack of romantic inflation,whining,or self-congratulation
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