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Seeing Things
Her fourth book. The story of instant salvationism at Berkeley.
Photography by Lloyd Patrick Baker.
Reviews:
New York Times:
"...profound and humorous... The dense accomplished prose will give much pleasure."
Courier-Journal & Times:
"This novel swarms with every conceivable spiritual fad flourishing on the West Coast -- all of them delightfully jumbled into satire; EST, Rolfing, Yoga, Rev. Moon, the Whole Earth Catalogue, clairvoyance, Buber's ICH AND DU," TURNED INTO RIVAL ORGANIZATIONS, EVEN THE CIA. ...brilliantly conceived."
Kay Boyle:
"SEEING THINGS is a triumph of diabolical irony.The realities as well as the fantasies of contemporary social structure are outwitted by Charlotte Painter's imaginative genius... Even Jung is satirized in the first line, where the narrator-spirit guide gives his/her name as Philomen, Jung's own guide."
Frank Waters:
"Uproariously funny and diabolically clever … just the same this is a disturbing book. It mirrors all of our uneasiness, our hidden fears, our desperate search for a way out of our tragic era. It is the fantasy of our common unconsciousness, brought up into our consciousness in living, dreadfully alive, images."
Hugh Nissenson:
"A marvelous book: funny, mythic and illuminating. It flashes forth glimpses of the universe of the unconscious, with its universal ramifications, that we all share."
Photography by Lloyd Patrick Baker.
Reviews:
New York Times:
"...profound and humorous... The dense accomplished prose will give much pleasure."
Courier-Journal & Times:
"This novel swarms with every conceivable spiritual fad flourishing on the West Coast -- all of them delightfully jumbled into satire; EST, Rolfing, Yoga, Rev. Moon, the Whole Earth Catalogue, clairvoyance, Buber's ICH AND DU," TURNED INTO RIVAL ORGANIZATIONS, EVEN THE CIA. ...brilliantly conceived."
Kay Boyle:
"SEEING THINGS is a triumph of diabolical irony.The realities as well as the fantasies of contemporary social structure are outwitted by Charlotte Painter's imaginative genius... Even Jung is satirized in the first line, where the narrator-spirit guide gives his/her name as Philomen, Jung's own guide."
Frank Waters:
"Uproariously funny and diabolically clever … just the same this is a disturbing book. It mirrors all of our uneasiness, our hidden fears, our desperate search for a way out of our tragic era. It is the fantasy of our common unconsciousness, brought up into our consciousness in living, dreadfully alive, images."
Hugh Nissenson:
"A marvelous book: funny, mythic and illuminating. It flashes forth glimpses of the universe of the unconscious, with its universal ramifications, that we all share."
235 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1976
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