Girl, Interrupted
Registered by waterfalling of Rockledge, Florida USA on 6/5/2008
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trade-size paperback.
from the back cover:
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.
from the back cover:
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.
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Journal Entry 4 by Oldbroad at -- By Hand Or Post, Ray/Ring, RABCK in -- Mail or by hand-ring, RABCK, meetings, Washington USA on Friday, October 9, 2009
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Released to the Fall ABC bookbox.
Released to the Fall ABC bookbox.
Chosen from princess-peapod's ABC bookbox.
It's impossible not to compare this with The Bell Jar, and in some ways I liked this better. For one thing, Bell Jar is rooted pretty firmly in its own time, which is not ours. Also, Kaysen has a chapter, Mind vs. Brain, in which she tries to show us how it feels to have a mind working against itself.
Journal Entry 7 by JudySlump612 at Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Monday, February 1, 2010
Released 14 yrs ago (2/1/2010 UTC) at Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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Adding to Medicine Chest bookbox
Adding to Medicine Chest bookbox
Taken from the medicine chest bookbox.
Journal Entry 9 by Azuki at Panera Bread - Falls in Miami, Florida USA on Saturday, September 1, 2012
Left at book basket.
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Bookcrossing is a wonderful online community of book lovers dedicated to sharing books with each other and the world at large. We are also curious to see how far and wide our books can travel. I would appreciate if you can make a journal entry on this book so we know where the book has been. You don't have to set up an account.
Feel free to keep this book, return it to where you found it, or pass it on to the next reader. If you sign up as a member, you will hear from the book as it travels and gets journaled. Visit also the BookCrossing community to meet other booklovers. Membership is confidential, free, and spam-free. Happy reading!