Girl, Interrupted: Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie - Brossura

Kaysen, Susanna

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ISBN 10: 1860497926 ISBN 13: 9781860497926

Casa editrice: Virago, 2000

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

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 MAGAZINE)

Intelligent and painful (GUARDIAN)

Girl, Interrupted is superb, poignant and more powerful for its lack of romantic inflation, whining, or self-congratulation (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY)

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 (Kaysen's account goes further and questions the standard notions of sanity and insanity. Her plausible voice allows the reader to accept a world where time is distorted, chaos reigns and questions are left unanswered, capturing perfectly the sense of help)

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* 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

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• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1860497926
• ISBN 13: 9781860497926
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192