About this title: This compelling story explores the lives of two women in contemporary New York: a psychologist and her patient. August portrays their parallel lives in a moving portrait that will mean many things to each of its readers in many startling ways.
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Edition: August 1984 edition.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Warner Books
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780446322560ISBN:0446322563
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages are tight with no markings or tears. Cover is clean and bright, but with minor discoloration. A commercial label is affixed to front cover and back cover has a repairable tear. Spine curl with crease. 557 p., Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass market pb
Publisher: Warner Books, New York, N. Y.
Date Published: (c)1983
ISBN-13:9780446322560ISBN:0446322563
Description: Fair. No dust jacket, as issued. GOOD READER. Unknown printing. 557 p. ; Ist Warner Books Printing 1884 August: when patients in psychoanalysis know that their doctors will go on vacation and they must face the long, bleak month alone. read more
Edition: First Warner Paperback
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Warner Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780446322560ISBN:0446322563
Description: Fair. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Cover is worn with some creasing & edgewear. Spine creased & slightly rolling. Pages are tanning otherwise good. Solid reading copy. SYNOPSIS: Dr. Lulu Shinefeld begins the analysis of Dawn Henley, a lovely Barnard freshman whose bizarre childhood and tenuous future have twice brought her to the edge of suicide. Parallel to Dawn's story is the revelation of Lulu's own personal life & the truth about her relationships with her peers, her love and her children. The ... read more
Edition: First Warner Paperback
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Warner Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780446322560ISBN:0446322563
Description: Fair. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Cover is worn with some creasing & edgewear. Spine creased & slightly rolling. Pages are tanning otherwise good. Solid reading copy. SYNOPSIS: Dr. Lulu Shinefeld begins the analysis of Dawn Henley, a lovely Barnard freshman whose bizarre childhood and tenuous future have twice brought her to the edge of suicide. Parallel to Dawn's story is the revelation of Lulu's own personal life & the truth about her relationships with her peers, her love and her children. The ... read more
"I couldn't really get into it. I got about halfway through, and I had to move on to another book. Maybe later I'll try to finish it, but it just moved way too slowly for me. I guess I'm just not into reading the back and forth between a doctor and her patient."
"I thought that this book was just ok overall. Certain aspects of the main characters, Dawn and Dr. Shinefeld, really annoyed me. There were also parts of the book that I thought were downright boring. That said, I thought that it was interesting that the feel of the early 80s really came through in this book. I could just picture Dr. Shinefeld in a power suit. The struggle of being a woman and breaking societal roles was pervasive.
As far as Dawn's analysis goes, I was annoyed with her a good portion of the time. I just couldn't buy the idea that her life was so bad. She seemed lost in the way that many wealthy spoiled children are."
"I forced myself to read at least 100 pages of this book, thinking surely I would get into it at some point because the premise of the analyst and her patient, Dawn, sounded interesting. Finally I acknowledged this just isn't my cup of tea, since I lose patience with all this talking in sessions that doesn't seem to have any point or relevance...."
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