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En un país de madres
Un inquietante thriller psicoló una relación entre terapeuta y paciente deriva en una peligrosa obsesión.
Jody Goodman es una joven cineasta que acaba de mudarse de California a Nueva York. Insegura y angustiada, decide acudir a una terapeuta en busca de equilibrio. Inicia sus sesiones con Claire Roth, madura, casada y con dos hijos. Una mujer con una vida estable, pero carcomida por una obsesión, un tormento, una culpa que rebrota al iniciar su relación profesional con Jody.
En sus años de estudiante universitaria, Claire se quedó embarazada de un profesor y decidió dar en adopción a la hija que tuvo. Ahora, confrontada con su nueva paciente, empieza a darle vueltas a la idea de que Jody podría ser esa hija a la que abandonó. Por su edad, su condición de adoptada y el lugar de donde viene, podría ser así. Y de este modo, la relación entre terapeuta y paciente va mutando hacia otro terreno, cada vez más inquietante y peligroso...
En esta novela temprana, un tenso thriller psicológico, A. M. Homes despliega ya todo el poderío de su talento de narradora armada con un afilado bisturí.
Jody Goodman es una joven cineasta que acaba de mudarse de California a Nueva York. Insegura y angustiada, decide acudir a una terapeuta en busca de equilibrio. Inicia sus sesiones con Claire Roth, madura, casada y con dos hijos. Una mujer con una vida estable, pero carcomida por una obsesión, un tormento, una culpa que rebrota al iniciar su relación profesional con Jody.
En sus años de estudiante universitaria, Claire se quedó embarazada de un profesor y decidió dar en adopción a la hija que tuvo. Ahora, confrontada con su nueva paciente, empieza a darle vueltas a la idea de que Jody podría ser esa hija a la que abandonó. Por su edad, su condición de adoptada y el lugar de donde viene, podría ser así. Y de este modo, la relación entre terapeuta y paciente va mutando hacia otro terreno, cada vez más inquietante y peligroso...
En esta novela temprana, un tenso thriller psicológico, A. M. Homes despliega ya todo el poderío de su talento de narradora armada con un afilado bisturí.
432 pages, Paperback
Published May 8, 2024
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About the author
A.M. Homes
76 books1,406 followersA.M. Homes is the author of the novels, The Unfolding, May We Be Forgiven, which won the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music For Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the short-story collections, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects, the travel memoir, Los Angeles: People, Places and The Castle on the Hill, and the artist's book Appendix A: An Elaboration on the Novel the End of Alice.
In April of 2007 Viking published her long awaited memoir, The Mistress's Daughter, the story of the author being "found" by her biological family, and a literary exploration and investigation of identity, adoption and genealogical ties that bind.
Her work has been translated into eighteen languages and appears frequently in Art Forum, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Zoetrope. She is a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair, Bomb and Blind Spot.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards including Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, NYFA, and The Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library, along with the Benjamin Franklin Award, and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.
In addition she has been active on the Boards of Directors of Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center In Provincetown, The Writers Room, and PEN-where she chairs both the membership committee and the Writers Fund. Additionally she serves on the Presidents Council for Poets and Writers.
A.M. Homes was a writer/producer of the hit television show The L Word in 2004-2005 and wrote the adaptation of her first novel JACK, for Showtime. The film aired in 2004 and won an Emmy Award for Stockard Channing. Director Rose Troche's film adaptation of The Safety of Objects was released in 2003, and Troche is currently developing In A Country of Mothers as well. Music For Torching is in development with director Steven Shainberg with a script by Buck Henry, and This Book Will Save Your Life is in Development with Stone Village Pictures.
Born in Washington D.C., she now lives in New York City.
In April of 2007 Viking published her long awaited memoir, The Mistress's Daughter, the story of the author being "found" by her biological family, and a literary exploration and investigation of identity, adoption and genealogical ties that bind.
Her work has been translated into eighteen languages and appears frequently in Art Forum, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Zoetrope. She is a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair, Bomb and Blind Spot.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards including Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, NYFA, and The Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library, along with the Benjamin Franklin Award, and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.
In addition she has been active on the Boards of Directors of Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center In Provincetown, The Writers Room, and PEN-where she chairs both the membership committee and the Writers Fund. Additionally she serves on the Presidents Council for Poets and Writers.
A.M. Homes was a writer/producer of the hit television show The L Word in 2004-2005 and wrote the adaptation of her first novel JACK, for Showtime. The film aired in 2004 and won an Emmy Award for Stockard Channing. Director Rose Troche's film adaptation of The Safety of Objects was released in 2003, and Troche is currently developing In A Country of Mothers as well. Music For Torching is in development with director Steven Shainberg with a script by Buck Henry, and This Book Will Save Your Life is in Development with Stone Village Pictures.
Born in Washington D.C., she now lives in New York City.
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June 21, 2025horrible, no se lo recomendaría a nadie. Me ha parecido insufrible
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