CASE STUDY. (SIGNED)

BURNET, Graeme Macrae.

ISBN 10: 1913393194 / ISBN 13: 9781913393199

Published by Saraband,, Salford,, 2021

About this Item

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publishers black cloth, lettered silver at the spine. A novel seething with secrets and teasing questions about the nature of identity itself, (wrapped in a frame story with some claims to deceptiveness), an enthralling, playful and layered depiction of 1960s society and the radical psychiatry propounded by R. D. Laing. Signed by the author on a label tipped in on the title page. Publishers publicity card loosely inserted. ISBN: 1913393194 Pages: 278 Fine in fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # C89707

Bibliographic Details

• Title: CASE STUDY. (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Saraband,, Salford,
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913393194
• ISBN 13: 9781913393199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signedes
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger.”

London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything. Even her own character.

In Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet presents these notebooks interspersed with his own biographical research into Collins Braithwaite. The result is a dazzling – and often wickedly humorous – meditation on the nature of sanity, identity and truth itself, by one of the most inventive novelists writing today.