Dora: A Headcase

by Lidia Yuknavitch

Book Overview

Dora: A Headcase is a contemporary coming-of-age story based on Freud's famous case study--retold and revamped through Dora's point of view, with shotgun blasts of dark humor and sexual play. Ida needs a shrink . . . or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, whom she nicknames Siggy, Ida begins a coming-of-age journey. At the beginning of her therapy, Ida,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983477574
• ISBN13: 9780983477570
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Hawthorne Books
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Meh.

It was so-so. Not bad enough to stop reading, but not good enough to praise.