{"product_id":"9780349017907","title":"Susanna Kaysen - Girl, Interrupted","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Susanna Kaysen. Themes include Biography \u0026amp; Autobiography, Literary Figures, Medical, Internal Medicine, Mental Health.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo mark the 30th anniversary of this impactful, bestselling memoir, Girl, Interrupted is now published as a Virago Modern Classic 30Th Anniversary Editionwith 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 Timesa 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58560143589750,"sku":null,"price":8.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780349017907.jpg?v=1787930247","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9780349017907","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}