On the Couch: Great American Stories about Therapy
The therapist's office remains one of the few private places in our world. On the Couch, a scintillating collection of contemporary American short stories, provides nineteen separate windows onto this intensely private experience, from the heroine in Lorrie Moore's "If Only Bert Were Here, " who cannot recover from the death of her beloved cat (and who lists Haagen-Dazs as a distinct stage of mourning), to the couple in John Updike's "The Fairy Godfathers, " whose passion requires the presence of their respective therapists, to the protagonist of Stephen McCauley's "The Whole Truth, " who can, hilariously, barely keep straight the twisted lies she tells her therapist about her romantic entanglements. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 188
- ISBN
- 9780871137401
- Utgivelsesår
- 1999
- Format
- 21 x 14 cm