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Dreaming for Freud : A Novel

Dreaming for Freud : A Novel Paperback - 2014

by Sheila Kohler

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Penguin Publishing Group, 2014. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Dreaming for Freud : A Novel
  • Author Sheila Kohler
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
  • Date 2014
  • Features Deckle Edges, Price on Product - Canadian
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0143125192I2N00
  • ISBN 9780143125198 / 0143125192
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.81 x 5.21 x 0.69 in (19.84 x 13.23 x 1.75 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013048717
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

An award-winning author reimagines one of Freud’s most famous and controversial cases

Acclaimed for her spare prose and exceptional psychological insights in her novels Becoming Jane Eyre and Love Child, Sheila Kohler’s latest is inspired by Sigmund Freud’s Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria. Dreaming for Freud paints a provocative and sensual portrait of one of history’s most famous patients.

In the fall of 1900, Dora’s father forces her to begin treatment with the doctor. Visiting him daily, the seventeen-year-old girl lies on his ottoman and tells him frankly about her strange life, and above all about her father's desires as far as she is concerned. But Dora abruptly ends her treatment after only eleven weeks, just as Freud was convinced he was on the cusp of a major discovery. In Dreaming for Freud, Kohler explores what might have happened between the man who changed the face of psychotherapy and the beautiful young woman who gave him her dreams.

From the publisher

Sheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is the author of thirteen works of fiction, including the novels Becoming Jane Eyre and Cracks, which was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award made into a film starring Eva Green. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/15/2014, Page 24
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2014, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 04/01/2014, Page 81
  • People Weekly, 08/31/2014, Page 26
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/07/2014, Page 0

About the author

Sheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is the author of thirteen works of fiction, including the novels Becoming Jane Eyre and Cracks, which was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award made into a film starring Eva Green. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City.