A Version of Love

by Millicent Dillon

Book Overview

Not since D. M. Thomas's bestseller The White Hotel has there been such a remarkable novel about women, hysteria, and the profession of psychiatry as practiced by men. Set in California and Mexico in the late 1950s and early 1960s, A Version of Love is a bizarrely riveting tale of transgressive desire. Its lead players form a precarious triangle: a psychoanalyst who sleeps with his patient; a female hysteric on the verge of being cured; and a loner...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393342506
• ISBN13: 9780393342505
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"