Beschreibung

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 to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor and Ray Charles. A clear-sighted, unflinching work that provokes questions about our definitions of sane and insane, Kaysen's extraordinary memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers.

Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted is the autobiographical story of the author's time in a psychiatric award in 1967. Sylvia Plath was a patient at the same hospital in the early 1950s so inevitably comparisons have been made between Plath's The Bell Jar

Vorwort

* Now a major film starring Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave
* A clear-sighted and unflinching memoir of an eighteen-year-old girl about her two year stay in a psychiatric hospital for depression

Autorentext
Susanna Kaysen was born in 1948 and brought up in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she still lives. She has written two novels, ASA, AS I KNEW HIM and FAR AFIELD. While working on the latter, memories of her two year stay at McLean's psychiatric hospital began to emerge. With the help of a lawyer she obtained her 350 page file from the hospital. GIRL, INTERRUPTED followed.

Klappentext

Tying in to a major new film starring Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave, this is Kaysen's clear-sighted account of her two-year stay at a psychiatric hospital at the age of eighteen.

Zusammenfassung
* Now a major film starring Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave* A clear-sighted and unflinching memoir of an eighteen-year-old girl about her two year stay in a psychiatric hospital for depression

Produktinformationen

Titel:	Girl, Interrupted
Autor:	Susanna Kaysen
EAN:	9781860497926
ISBN:	978-1-86049-792-6
Format:	Taschenbuch
Herausgeber:	Little, Brown and Company
Genre:	Politik, Gesellschaft & Wirtschaft
Anzahl Seiten:	192
Gewicht:	158g
Größe:	H198mm x B126mm x T13mm
Jahr:	2000
Auflage:	Film tie-in