Girl, Interrupted
By Susanna Kaysen
By Susanna Kaysen
By Susanna Kaysen
By Susanna Kaysen
Category: Biography & Memoir | Psychology
Category: Biography & Memoir | Psychology
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$17.00
Apr 19, 1994 | ISBN 9780679746041
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Jun 19, 2013 | ISBN 9780804151115
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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 ward and its patients…. Kaysen’s meditations on young women and madness form a trenchant counterpoint to the copies of her medical records that 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 experience with insanity. Kaysen presents a meaningful analysis of the dual and contradictory nature of psychiatric hospitalization as both refuge and prison.” —San Francisco Chronicle
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