Girl, interrupted
Record details
- ISBN: 0679746048 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780679746041 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
168 p. : ill ; 21 cm.
print - Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993. |
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Genre: | Autobiographies. |
Available copies
- 4 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 0 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | 616.89 KAYS (Text) | 33294001154863 | Adult Non-Fiction | Not holdable | Lost | 2021-09-01 |
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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.