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(0)Susanna Kaysen
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Two family sabbaticals across the Atlantic and a brilliant orchestra conductor shape the perspectives of a young woman from 1950s Harvard Square, who develops new ways of thinking about music, love, and art while struggling with feelings of being a perpetual outsider.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The author describes her two-year stay at a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele and for its progressive methods of treatment.
"WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses...