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Girl, Interrupted

Pocket
Engelsk
Virago Modern Classics
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted
  • Forfatter: Susanna Kaysen
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 192
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Virago Modern Classics
  • EAN: 9781860497926
  • Utgivelsesår: 2000
  • Bidragsyter: Kaysen, Susanna
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The bestselling book that inspired the cult classic film, Girl, Interrupted, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.

"Not since Sylvia Plath''s The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim" TIME

"Intelligent and painful" Guardian


"Poignant, astonishing memoir" New York Times


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 percepti