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| Original Title: | Girl, Interrupted |
| ISBN: | 0679746048 (ISBN13: 9780679746041) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Susanna Kaysen |
Susanna Kaysen
Paperback | Pages: 169 pages Rating: 3.9 | 173053 Users | 4400 Reviews
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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 documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
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| Title | : | Girl, Interrupted |
| Author | : | Susanna Kaysen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 169 pages |
| Published | : | April 19th 1994 by Vintage (first published 1993) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Psychology. Health. Mental Health |
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Ratings: 3.9 From 173053 Users | 4400 ReviewsColumn Appertaining To Books Girl, Interrupted
3.5 StarsI've always been fascinated with mental health and when this movie came out, it was one that I watched time and time again. I never realized it was a book, and not only that but a true account from Susanna Kaysen. The book is short, and cuts right to the point. The chapters are set up like thoughts or short concepts that Susanna wants to share. The movie does a great job of sticking close to the book and I was impressed with how closely they matched. Susanna finds herself sent toI read this book around the time the movie came out. I remember liking it, but not loving it. I'm curious to maybe do a re-read one day. I kind of felt like it was one of those books that got a lot of hype and didn't live up to it. I liked the movie. If I ever do a re-read, I'll add to this. I don't remember much, to be honest, except that it didn't blow me away. I bought the book and I ended up over the years donating it to a thrift store. So, I must not have liked it that much. :P
Im sort of at a loss for how to describe this book and the emotions it provoked within me. I guess the best word I could use is unsettled, but probably not for the reason you would imagine. This quote might shed some light on what I mean: The less likely (a) terrible thing is to happen, the less frightening it is to look at or imagine. A person who doesnt talk to herself or stare into nothingness is therefore more alarming than a person who does. Someone who acts normal raises the uncomfortable
We're told not to, but I sometimes do judge a book by its cover. At least once in my life, it has paid off. I first read this book because I saw it laying under the desk of a girl in my French class in 8th grade and was immediately attracted to it- the constrast of blue against white and the separation and duality of the girl between.It was beautiful and strange and thought-provoking and somehow irrationally felt as close to me as some crazy friend who'd been trapped in my own brain for thirteen
Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? Good question, isn't it? You may start asking yourself this after reading this book.I only spent a few months taking care of patients in psychiatric hospitals, but it made me really appreciate the nuances of Kaysen's story. It is the viewpoint of someone who had to experience questioning her sanity - the one thing most of us take for granted. "Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco." What some don't know about personality disorders
4.5 stars. The fifth book in my project reading one book from each year of my life. I started this one last night, getting through 25 pages in the blink of an eye. I read the next 75 pages this morning before eating breakfast, and finished it while playing Assassins Creed, cooking dinner, eating dinner, and then after dinner. I know a book is good when Im reading while doing things a person for the most part would not read while doing. I also loved that the title is taken from the title of a
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