Add to Bookshelf
Look Inside | Reading Guide
Reading Guide
A Memoir
A Memoir
By Susanna Kaysen
By Susanna Kaysen
Best Seller
Category: | Psychology
Category: | Psychology
Paperback $17.00
Apr 19, 1994 | ISBN 9780679746041
Ebook $13.99
Jun 19, 2013 | ISBN 9780804151115
Paperback $17.00
Apr 19, 1994 | ISBN 9780679746041
Buy from Other Retailers:
See All Formats (1) +
-
$17.00
Apr 19, 1994 | ISBN 9780679746041
Buy from Other Retailers:
-
Jun 19, 2013 | ISBN 9780804151115
Buy from Other Retailers:
Buy the Ebook:
- Kobo
- Apple
- Books A Million
- Amazon
- Google Play Store
About Girl, Interrupted
30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER• 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. Her memoir of the next two years is a “poignant, honest … triumphantly funny … and heartbreaking story” (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was 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.
About Girl, Interrupted
30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER• 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. Her memoir of the next two years is a “poignant, honest … triumphantly funny … and heartbreaking story” (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was 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.
Also by Susanna Kaysen
See all books by Susanna Kaysen
Also by Susanna Kaysen
See all books by Susanna Kaysen
About Susanna Kaysen
Susanna Kaysen has written the novelsAsa, As I Knew HimandFar Afieldand the memoirsGirl, InterruptedandThe Camera My Mother Gave Me.She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
About Susanna Kaysen
Susanna Kaysen has written the novelsAsa, As I Knew HimandFar Afieldand the memoirsGirl, InterruptedandThe Camera My Mother Gave Me.She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Product Details
Category: | Psychology
Paperback | $17.00
Published by Vintage
Apr 19, 1994 | 192 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679746041
Category: | Psychology
Ebook | $13.99
Published by Vintage
Jun 19, 2013 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9780804151115
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
QUICK VIEW
Add to bookshelf
Scruples
Judith Krantz
Paperback
$8.99
QUICK VIEW
Add to bookshelf
Deception
Philip Roth
Paperback
$15.00
QUICK VIEW
Add to bookshelf
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
Paperback
$19.00
QUICK VIEW
Add to bookshelf
So Much Longing in So Little Space
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Paperback
$18.00
QUICK VIEW
Add to bookshelf
Sabbath’s Theater
Philip Roth
Paperback
$19.00
QUICK VIEW
Add to bookshelf
The Queen’s Gambit (Television Tie-in)
Walter Tevis
Paperback
$16.95
QUICK VIEW
Add to bookshelf
Foe
J. M. Coetzee
Paperback
$16.00
QUICK VIEW
Add to bookshelf
Cambridge
Susanna Kaysen
Paperback
$19.00
QUICK VIEW
Add to bookshelf
The Impressionist
Hari Kunzru
Paperback
$15.00
QUICK VIEW
Add to bookshelf
Americana
Don DeLillo
Paperback
$18.00
Praise
“Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny … [a] compelling and heartbreaking story.”—The New York Times Book Review
“In piercing vignettes shadowed with humor [Kaysen] brings to life the routine of the wardand its patients…. Kaysen’s meditations on young women and madness form a trenchant counterpoint to the copies of her medical recordsthat are woven into the text.” —The New Yorker
“An eloquent and unexpectedly funny memoir.” —Vanity Fair
”Memorable and stirring … fascinating. A powerful examination not only of Kaysen’s own imperfections but of those of the system that diagnosed her.” —Vogue
“Tough-minded … darkly comic … written with indelible clarity.”—Newsweek
“[A]n account of a disturbed girl’s unwilling passage into womanhood … and here is the girl, looking into our faces with urgent eyes.” —Washington Post Book World
“At turns wry, sardonic, witty … an unusual glimpse of a young woman’s experiencewith insanity. Kaysen presents a meaningful analysis of the dual and contradictory nature ofpsychiatric hospitalization as both refuge and prison.”—San FranciscoChronicle
Awards
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults WINNER
Related Links
Looking for More Great Reads?
21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read
Girl, Interrupted
Category: | Psychology
Category: | Psychology
Girl, Interrupted
Buy Now
Paperback
Apr 19, 1994 | ISBN 9780679746041
See All Formats (1) +
Dismiss
Back to Top
Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network
Brightly
Raise kids who love to read
Today's Top Books Want to know what people are actually reading right now?
TASTE
An online magazine for today’s home cook
×
Become a Member
Just for joining you’ll get personalized recommendations on your dashboard daily and features only for members.
Find Out More Join Now Sign In
Hi,
Member Since
Account Overview Recommendations Orders Account Details Email Preferences Bookshelf
Success!
Your account has been created. Upload book purchases, access your personalized book recommendations, and more from here.
