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Girl, Interrupted

by Susanna Kaysen
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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.

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  • Release date

    June 19, 2013

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780804151115

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780804151115
      • File size: 3517 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 5.4
    • Lexile® Measure: 760
    • Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    • Text Difficulty: 3-4

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Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:5.4
  • Lexile® Measure:760
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)
  • Text Difficulty:3-4