My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers: A Novel in Stories - Hardcover

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In a novel created from twelve connected stories, Cherry writes with lightness and grace about life's most serious subjects. Her plucky heroine travels a bumpy road from dependence to self-help, with a beacon of humor guiding the way.

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Kelly Cherry is Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin as well as a prominent southern poet and writer, author of In the Wink of an Eye and Natural Theology.

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Cherry's ( Augusta Played ) "novel in stories" is such a mixture of the irritating and the insightful that its appeal will be a matter of individual taste. Narrator Nina, fearing the approach of middle age, struggles to heal the scars left by an incestuous assault and makes some real progress, at the same time remaining obsessed with the last man to dump her. In the first three stories especially, Nina's stability, suggested in the title, bogs down in psychobabble as she pursues, then rues, the offerings of psychiatry. The reader's patience is rewarded in the later sections, however, as Nina stops being the slave of theories and allows herself to experience relationships more naturally. Given the weak and tangled psyche to which we are originally introduced, Nina's ultimate transformation lacks a degree of credibility, but Cherry does achieve a unique portrait.
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  • PublisherAlgonquin Books
  • Publication date1990
  • ISBN 10 0945575319
  • ISBN 13 9780945575313
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages221
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