In a country of mothers / A. M. Homes.
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TextSeries: Vintage contemporariesPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1994Edition: First Vintage Contemporaries EditionDescription: 275 pages : 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0679742433 [newsprint]Subject(s): Psychotherapist and patient -- Fiction | Women psychoanalysts -- Fiction | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction | Adopted children -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction.DDC classification: Online resources: Publisher description Summary: Summary: No relationship is more charged than that between a psychotherapist and her patient- unless it is the relationship between a mother and her daughter. This disturbing literary thriller explores what happens when the line between those relationship blurs.
Jody Goodman enters psychotherapy with questions of career and love on her mind. But Claire Roth, her therapist, keeps changing the focus of their sessions to Jody's parentage- Jody was adopted; Claire gave up a baby for adoption who would now be exactly Jody's age. As the two women become increasingly involved, speculation turns into certainty, fantasy into fixation. Until suddenly it is no longer clear just which of them needs the other more- or with more terrifying consequences.
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Homes...has the ability to scare you half to death...[She is] devastating...a very dangerous writer."
Summary: No relationship is more charged than that between a psychotherapist and her patient- unless it is the relationship between a mother and her daughter. This disturbing literary thriller explores what happens when the line between those relationship blurs.
Jody Goodman enters psychotherapy with questions of career and love on her mind. But Claire Roth, her therapist, keeps changing the focus of their sessions to Jody's parentage- Jody was adopted; Claire gave up a baby for adoption who would now be exactly Jody's age. As the two women become increasingly involved, speculation turns into certainty, fantasy into fixation. Until suddenly it is no longer clear just which of them needs the other more- or with more terrifying consequences.
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