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Girl Interrupted
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Girl Interrupted
The true story of writer Susanna Kaysen, who finds herself at a renowned mental health institution for troubled young women where she must decide whether she should stay in the safe environment of the institution or whether she can cope with the often difficult outside world.
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Girl, Interrupted
In 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen was sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression and spent most of the next two years there. In this, her memoir of her time there, she questions our definitions of sane and insane, and offers vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. author: Kaysen, Susanna; publisher: Virago
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GIRL INTERRUPTED
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Virago Press Ltd Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen's <I>Girl, Interrupted</I> 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 <I>The Bell Jar</I> and Kaysen's novel--both recounting a young woman's descent into insanity. This, however, is where the similarities end--<I>The Bell Jar</I> is a haunting and lyrical book; <I>Girl, Interrupted</I> is a more hard-edged, documentary-style narrative. It has none of the beauty and poetry of Plath's prose and is more akin to Elizabeth Wurtzel's <I>Prozac Nation</I> , an up-to-date memoir of a young girl's struggle with depression and drugs. Both these books offer a brutal and stark image of a life of mental illness. <p>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 helplessness and frustration felt by these women. The book's gritty realism is also heightened by copies of the author's original medical reports lodged between the chapters. <p>However, it is her penetrating insights into those around her, from those cared for to the caretakers, that make Girl, Interrupted so potent. Lacing her narrative with a hard-edged, sardonic sting, she introduces us to a cast of characters from the outrageous Lisa to the chicken-hoarding Daisy to the Martian's girlfriend: <blockquote>Daisy was a seasonal event. She came before Thanksgiving and stayed through Christmas every year ... Would anyone like to share? the head nurse asked ... Me! Me! Somebody who was a Martian's girlfriend and also had a little penis of her own, which she was eager to show off, raised a hand; nobody wanted to share with her.</blockquote> Girl, Interrupted is a credible and creditable chronicle of the lives of women in the 1960s who, through the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of society, were contained and monitored for not fitting into the norm, the mainstream. <I>Nicola Perry</I>
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Girl Interrupted
Buy Girl Interrupted from HMV.co.uk as part of our October Sale - Film DVDs promotion. Free delivery and usually despatched in 24 hours.
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Faber and Faber Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen's <I>Girl, Interrupted</I> 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 <I>The Bell Jar</I> and Kaysen's novel--both recounting a young woman's descent into insanity. This, however, is where the similarities end--<I>The Bell Jar</I> is a haunting and lyrical book; <I>Girl, Interrupted</I> is a more hard-edged, documentary-style narrative. It has none of the beauty and poetry of Plath's prose and is more akin to Elizabeth Wurtzel's <I>Prozac Nation</I> , an up-to-date memoir of a young girl's struggle with depression and drugs. Both these books offer a brutal and stark image of a life of mental illness. <p>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 helplessness and frustration felt by these women. The book's gritty realism is also heightened by copies of the author's original medical reports lodged between the chapters. <p>However, it is her penetrating insights into those around her, from those cared for to the caretakers, that make Girl, Interrupted so potent. Lacing her narrative with a hard-edged, sardonic sting, she introduces us to a cast of characters from the outrageous Lisa to the chicken-hoarding Daisy to the Martian's girlfriend: <blockquote>Daisy was a seasonal event. She came before Thanksgiving and stayed through Christmas every year ... Would anyone like to share? the head nurse asked ... Me! Me! Somebody who was a Martian's girlfriend and also had a little penis of her own, which she was eager to show off, raised a hand; nobody wanted to share with her.</blockquote> Girl, Interrupted is a credible and creditable chronicle of the lives of women in the 1960s who, through the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of society, were contained and monitored for not fitting into the norm, the mainstream. <I>Nicola Perry</I>
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Virago Girl Interrupted
Paperback, Virago
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