Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen [FIRST EDITION]

Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 

FIRST EDITION / 9TH PRINTING [1993] TURTLE BAY BOOKS

Hardcover with dust jacket in Very Good condition.   

Dust jacket has rub wear but is otherwise in great shape. 

Book itself looks and reads like new. 

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. - Bookshop Apocalypse