eBook details
- Title: Netsuke
- Author : Rikki Ducornet
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Literary,Books,Fiction & Literature,Mysteries & Thrillers,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 6333 KB
Description
This captivating descent into a psychoanalystâs troubled, erotic, and harrowing inner world âtenaciously plums the tension between impulse and restraintâ (American Book Review).
Ruled by his hunger for erotic encounters, a deeply wounded psychoanalyst seduces both patients and strangers with equal heat. Driven to compartmentalize his life, the doctor attempts to order and contain his lovers as he does his collection of rare netsuke, the precious miniature sculptures gifted to him by his wife.
This riveting exploration of one psychoanalystâs abuse of power unearths the startling introspection present within even the darkest heart. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Ducornet has fashioned a brilliant novel âas fascinating as it is dirty and dark,â where âsex and psychosis are indistinguishableâ and âthe plot is impossible to resistâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
âDucornet is a novelist of ambition and scope. One is grateful for what sheâs accomplished here.â âNew York Times
âAn unflinching meditation on the twinned drives of lust and destruction . . . Ducornet makes her characters real and scary beneath the ruminative, quietly observant prose. Highly recommended for literate readers.â âLibrary Journal
âAn enticing, fast-moving exploration of one manâs obsession with his calculated power and unhinged desires.â âBooklist
âThis story has some fascinating insights and noholds-barred language.â âNew York Journal of Books
âIt has important things to say, embedded in the deadly beautiful prose. . . . Readers owe it to themselves to encounter this slim but complex novel on its own terms.â âJeff Vandermeer