The Analyst

By Anne Osborne

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688034780
• ISBN13: 9780688034788
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A book that spans several families and generations

Anne Osborne fills her first book with many memorable characters, but major and minor. Three generations of the Kingman family, all the characters from Isabel's past, Paul's past, the minor but well described characters of the various hospitals, and most amusing of all, Marcel Block, give the novel depth.The story, while told in out of order sequences, is easy to follow and the order actually spurs the reader on. I felt various emotions toward Isabel: Pity and pain after her experience with Byran, then hate and anger at the way she treated Paul, and then pain again at her depression due to her mistreatment at the hands of Paul's father, William. At the end, I was happy for Paul the he was in love, and cheered him on when he stood up to his powerful father and uncle.All in all, a well-written story about money and how people deal with it and live up to the expectations of society and their family, and how, in the case of Paul and Isabel, don't deal well with it, but manage to come out alive and smarter.