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RC464.K36 A3 1994 - Regular Loan - Main Library Collection (Books)
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Author
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 Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-
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Title
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Girl, interrupted / Susanna Kaysen.
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Edition
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1st Vintage Books ed.
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New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
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Description
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168 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993.
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Summary
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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. 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.
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Biography
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Subject Headings
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Kaysen, Susanna, 1948- -- Mental health.
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Psychiatric hospital patients -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
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ISBN
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0679746048
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9780679746041
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000046851
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RC464.K36 A3 1994 - Regular Loan - Main Library Collection (Books)
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