30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
‘Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women’s mental health. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the world responds to complicated young women’ SCARLETT CURTIS
‘Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny . . . A compelling and heartbreaking story’ NEW YORK TIMES
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.
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.
The bestselling memoir that inspired the cult classic film, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
‘Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women’s mental health. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the world responds to complicated young women’ SCARLETT CURTIS
‘Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny . . . A compelling and heartbreaking story’ NEW YORK TIMES
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.
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.
The bestselling memoir that inspired the cult classic film, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.
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Reviews
Not since Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim
Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the world responds to complicated young women
Memorable and stirring . . . Fascinating. A powerful examination not only of Kaysen's own imperfections but of those of the system that diagnosed her
Girl, Interrupted is superb, poignant and more powerful for its lack of romantic inflation, whining, or self-congratulation
A cool, elegant and unexpectedly funny memoir
Intelligent and painful
Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny . . . A compelling and heartbreaking story
