Zusatztext Susanna Kaysen's Girl! Interrupted 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 The Bell Jar Informationen zum Autor Susanna Kaysen (1948) was brought up in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she still lives. She has written two novels, ASA, AS I KNEW HIM and FAR AFIELD . While working on the latter, memories of her two year stay at McLean's Psychiatric Hospital began to emerge. With the help of a lawyer she obtained her 350 page file from the hospital. GIRL, INTERRUPTED followed. Klappentext Tying in to a major new film starring Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave, this is Kaysen's clear-sighted account of her two-year stay at a psychiatric hospital at the age of eighteen. * Now a major film starring Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave * A clear-sighted and unflinching memoir of an eighteen-year-old girl about her two year stay in a psychiatric hospital for depression Zusammenfassung * Now a major film starring Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave* A clear-sighted and unflinching memoir of an eighteen-year-old girl about her two year stay in a psychiatric hospital for depression

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Paru le : 17/02/2000

Thématique : Littérature anglo saxone contemporaine en VO

Auteur(s) : Auteur : Kaysen, Susanna

Éditeur(s) : Virago Press Ltd

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EAN13 : 9781860497926

Pages : 192

Hauteur: 207.0 cm / Largeur 152.0 cm

Épaisseur: 13.0 cm

Poids: 0 g