Girl, Interrupted
3 journalers for this copy...
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.
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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Journal Entry 3 by havfaith at -- By Post Or Hand, Ray/Ring, Meet-Up, RABCK in Fairbanks, Alaska USA on Thursday, November 6, 2003
Release planned for Friday, November 07, 2003 at Sent to Fellow Bookcrosser in Fairbanks, Alaska USA.
In the mail! Enjoy! =)
In the mail! Enjoy! =)
recieved in todays mail from bookrelay can't wait to read
I enjoyed this book much more than the movie. The Vermeer reference also caught my attention. This is the second book this year(Girl with a Pearl Earring) that has refered to his paintings -I think it's telling me to go ahead and buy that book at barnes and noble with his paintings(Like I need an excuse to buy another book) : )
Sending on to Lizanne
Sending on to Lizanne
Just received in the mail! Thanks...I hope to finish and pass along DallasJay's Book box----aka---the Hernia.
LIZ
LIZ
I enjoyed this book. An insightful look into chronic mental illness through first person telling. Glad to know these things are treatable.
Journal Entry 8 by Lizanne at bookbox # 1 in Ryanreader's popular crowd bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Released on Tuesday, March 23, 2004 at bookbox # 1 in Ryanreader's popular crowd bookbox, Bookbox Controlled Releases.