Case Study
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3.7 • 13 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
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 • Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award
SELECTED BY NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022
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.
Customer Reviews
Subpar at best
The book seems interesting in theory when you just hear the premise but falls short of providing what was teased. Not enough happens, I rlly disliked all the characters, and a lot of the passages that are supposed to come off as profound just seem obvious. wouldn’t rlly reccomend but wasn’t the worst thing ever either
Absolute pointless garbage
Unreadable. Unless I completely missed the point of the story, I still don’t even know what I just read?? Pages and pages of gobbledygook clearly written with a thesaurus close by.