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ISBN: 9780262017923
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Published: The MIT Press - August 31st, 2012
A fascinating and scholarly memoir that asks the question Is psychoanalysis possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran? Homayounpour, a Western-trained psychoanalyst, returns to her motherland to establish a psychoanalytic practice after being away for 20 years. Through a series of interconnected vignettes, Homayounpour explores her own feelings of alienation and displacement as she discourses about her fascination with the writer Milan Kundera, her struggles with the analytic dyad, her consideration of the free-associative process, while exploring Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Through glimpses into the lives of Homayounpour’s patients - a famous artist, who dreams of abandonment and sits in the analyst’s chair, a young chador-clad woman, who having lost her virginity is overcome with shame, a man who is permitted to explore his married lover’s body only in the slightest of increments - we gain insight into a rich culture, into the stories behind the stories. Doing Psychoanalysis in Teheran is a mosaic of symbol and language. ~ Reviewed by Amy Palmer
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ISBN: 9781594631771
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 3rd, 2013
Pulitzer prize winner Junot Diaz's rhythmic, demanding prose pounds the page as it ignites the imagination. His main character, Yunior, maddening, BAD and brilliant, is the focal point for a selection of stories about love, infidelity (so much infidelity, so many consequences) and family. Diaz's passionate, imaginative language, his provocative probing of emotional entanglements, his colorful, raunchy, flawed characters reveal the grit and richness of life. ~ Reviewed by Amy Palmer
$17.00
ISBN: 9780142437254
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Published: Penguin Classics - December 31st, 2002
"...it's a valentine to the United States," wrote Kerouac scholar Douglas Brinkley about the infamous cross country road trip undertaken with Neal Cassady. A fierce, personal quest for "IT" - meaning and belonging - Kerouac's manic, jazz inspired and poetic voice is the definitive one for The Beats! ~ Reviewed by Amy Palmer
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ISBN: 9780312429966
Published: Picador USA - January 31st, 2012
Dark, depraved, delicious! An aristocratic British dynasty brought to its knees and depicted in all of its horror and twisted relational chaos by an acerbic and witty author. I recoiled, I cringed, but I couldn't put it down! ~ Reviewed by Amy Palmer
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ISBN: 9780307279187
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Published: Vintage - March 29th, 2011
Meet the mysterious Caballo Blanco and the blissful, barefoot Tarahumara, and match them pace for pace in this rollicking jaunt from the Badwater Ultramarathon to Mexico's Copper Canyons. If you've never trained or run, you'll want to start. ~ Reviewed by Amy Palmer
$15.95
ISBN: 9781590173787
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Published: NYRB Classics - March 15th, 2011
I fell in love with these stories - spare, spacious, reflective of place. A brilliant, meditative series of essays on the nature of love, work and the essence of creative partnership. ~ Reviewed by Amy Palmer
