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Girl Interrupted

GIRL, INTERRUPTED by Susanna Kaysen (New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1993)

1. Author:

Susanna Kayson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1948 where she still lives.
She is the author of books which are in some parts related to her personal experiences.
She worked as a free-lance editor and proof reader until an introduction to an agent set her career in motion.
Her novels:
The novel that caught the agent's attention, Asa, As I Knew Him, was published in 1987 and people were very interested in it. Kaysen followed up the success of her first book three years later with her second novel, Far Afield. Kaysen's third and as far as I know last book, Girl, Interrupted has been hugely acclaimed in America and Britain.

2. Subject of the book:

The book is an autobiography . It´s about her memories of her two-year stay at McLean´s psychiatric hospital, where she was treated for depression and Borderline Personality. With the help of a lawyer she obtained her 350 page file......


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