Case Study -- Graeme MacRae Burnet - Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize - Shortlisted for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards - Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize - Longlisted for the 2022 HWA Gold Crown Award
The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination.
London, 1965. 'I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger, ' writes an anonymous patient, a young woman investigating her sister's suicide. In the guise of a dynamic and troubled alter-ego named Rebecca Smyth, she makes an appointment with the notorious and roughly charismatic psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite, whom she believes is responsible for her sister's death. But in this world of beguilement and bamboozlement, neither she nor we can be certain of anything.
Case Study is a novel as slippery as it is riveting, as playful as it is sinister, a meditation on truth, sanity, and the instability of identity by one of the most inventive novelists of our time.
Author: Graeme MacRae Burnet
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 5.00h x 7.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781771965200
Award: Man Booker Prize - Nominee
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2022
Foreword 10/27/2022