Empathy (Little Sister's Classics)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.20 (767 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1551522012 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 225 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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. In a plain-spoken, often funny narrative, Schulman makes provocative statements about gender roles, sexual orientation, AIDS, homelessness, drugs and the therapeutic value of an attentive ear. From Publishers Weekly Lesbian writer Schulman follows her well-received After Delores and People in Trouble with this insightful allegory, which explores the feminine and masculine qualities said to coexist within every personality. Representing the female and male halves of a complete person, Anna and Doc discover that together they can confront conventional mores, their own guilt and a woman, symbolically clad in white leather, who broke their hearts. Anna consults "street-corner psychiatrist" Doc, who roams New York's Lower East Side and charges pa
"It walks so high then falls off a cliff." according to Robert Beveridge. Sara Schulman, Empathy (Dutton, 1992)Until roughly twenty minutes before writing this review, I was getting ready to say Empathy was going to be a definite for my best twenty-five reads of 200It walks so high then falls off a cliff. Sara Schulman, Empathy (Dutton, 1992)Until roughly twenty minutes before writing this review, I was getting ready to say Empathy was going to be a definite for my best twenty-five reads of 2003 list. Then I read the last three chapters.The first twenty-seven are brilliant. The story's two main characters are Anna O., a lesbian attempting to get over an old relationship and find someone new, and Doc, a post-Freudian therapist who finds prospective clients by handing out business cards on the street and will never keep a client for more than three sessions. Eventually, their two stories intertwine as Anna, finding one of Doc's . list. Then I read the last three chapters.The first twenty-seven are brilliant. The story's two main characters are Anna O., a lesbian attempting to get over an old relationship and find someone new, and Doc, a post-Freudian therapist who finds prospective clients by handing out business cards on the street and will never keep a client for more than three sessions. Eventually, their two stories intertwine as Anna, finding one of Doc's . I 've re-read it at least 8 times over the years. Aside from being one of the funniest books I've ever read, it has a special quality: Certain paragraphs will spring out at me and I'll think: "I've always wanted the words to describe that kind of feeling or circumstance, and there on the page are the perfect words."I tend to devalue words as having little effect on the world, but reading Empathy reminds me that good writers can keep people alive when their sense of reality is questioned so brutally by the mainstream world. This book feels like my bible more than any thing else. And it has many funny moments in it. Oh there were also paragraphs where I didn't have a clue what. "smart, true, a pleasure to read" according to Erin Satie. There are plenty of razor-sharp bon mots in EMPATHY -- "Of course, in some ways Freudians are a cult because they have both a reductionist vocabulary and a spiritual leader," or "If only I could perfect forgetting and being awake at the same timeI'd be happy and put the alcohol and pharmaceutical companies out of business simultaneously," -- but that's not what makes it special.No. EMPATHY is wonderful when it is sincere and direct. "Simple words are the best," says our heroine, Anna, at one point, and Schulman proves it over and over again. I was astonished by the way that Schulman offered cleverness, analysis, and complexit
is a loner in New York, an office temp obsessed with a mysterious woman in white leather; Doc is a post-Freudian psychiatrist who hands out business cards to likely neurotics on street corners, and is himself looking for personal fulfillment. Features a new essay by the author and an introduction by Kevin Killian.. Provocative, observant, and daring, this 1992 novel by one of America’s preeminent lesbian writers and thinkers is being reissued for the Little Sister’s Classics series. This beautifully written novel is about the fluidity of desire, and how those of us damaged by love can still be transformed by it. Anna O. They befriend each other in the nether