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Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 10 days ago
Ships From - New Jersey
Est. Publication Date - May 1993
Seller Description
Susanna Kaysen's 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted details her two-year stay at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts after a 1967 suicide attempt. The book is a series of vignettes that depict the people and experiences Kaysen encounters at the affluent psychiatric facility. Kaysen befriends a group of troubled women, including a pathological liar, a schizophrenic, an anorexic, and a sociopath.
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Girl, Interrupted
ISBN: 9780679423669
Publisher Description
The author offers a compelling memoir of her two years as a teenager in a psychiatric hospital, sharing vivid portraits of her fellow patients, their keepers, and her experiences during treatment
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