Girl, Interrupted -- Susanna Kaysen, Paperback

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).

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.

Author: Susanna Kaysen
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/19/1994
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780679746041

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 36631 / Girl, Interrupted


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/28/1994

About the Author

Susanna Kaysen has written the novels Asa, As I Knew Him and Far Afield and the memoirs Girl, Interrupted and The Camera My Mother Gave Me. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.