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Author Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-

Title Girl, interrupted / Susanna Kaysen.

Publication Info. New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1994.
1993.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 KAYSEN    Billed
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  616.89 K18 c.2  Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B KAYSEN c.2  DUE 07-23-07 Assumed Lost
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B KAYSEN c.3  Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  616.89 KAYSEN    In Transit
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B KAYSEN c.4  Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Young Adult  YA B KAYSEN c.2  Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Young Adult  YA B KAYSEN c.3  Check Shelf
 Enfield, Pearl Street Branch Library - Young Adult  YA B KAYSEN    DUE 11-28-17 Billed
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO KAYSEN c.2  DUE 08-31-20 Billed

Edition First Vintage Books edition.
Description 168 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993.
Summary 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.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.4 5.0 36631.
Subject Kaysen, Susanna, 1948- -- Mental health.
Kaysen, Susanna, 1948- (OCoLC)fst00187965
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Personal Narratives.
Mental illness -- Personal Narratives.
Teenagers -- Mental health -- Biography.
Teenagers with mental disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Personal narratives.
Mentally ill women -- Personal narratives.
Mental health. (OCoLC)fst01016339
Mental illness. (OCoLC)fst01016547
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention. (OCoLC)fst01715758
Mentally ill women. (OCoLC)fst01016823
Psychiatric hospital patients. (OCoLC)fst01081030
Teenagers -- Mental health. (OCoLC)fst01145622
Massachusetts. (OCoLC)fst01204307
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
ISBN 9780679746041 (paperback)
0679746048 (paperback)
9781439558072 (Paw Prints)
1439558078 (PawPrints)
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