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Committed Paperback - 2024

by Scanlon, Suzanne,

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  • Title Committed
  • Author Scanlon, Suzanne,
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage
  • Publication date 2024-04-16
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 46143307
  • ISBN 9780593469101 / 0593469100
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.95 x 5.24 x 0.8 in (20.19 x 13.31 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Women - Mental health, Autobiographies
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2023028089
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
  • Quantity available 5

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From the publisher

A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad--and doing both at once.
When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother--feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain--she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

After nearly three years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took her to recover from the experience, Suzanne came to understand her suffering as part of something larger: a long tradition of women whose complicated and compromised stories of self-actualization are reduced to "crazy chick" and "madwoman" narratives. It was a thrilling discovery, and she searched for more books, more woman writers, as the journey of her life converged with her journey through the literature that shaped her.

Transporting, honest, and graceful, Committed is a story of discovery and recovery, reclaiming the idea of the madwoman as a template for insight and transcendence through the works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Janet Frame, Audre Lorde, Shulamith Firestone, and others.

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/15/2024, Page 0

About the author

SUZANNE SCANLON is the author of the novels Promising Young Women and Her 37th Year, An Index. Her writing has appeared in Granta, BOMB Magazine, The Iowa Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other places.

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