This Place

by Andrea Freud Loewenstein

Ruth and Candy, prison therapists, try to help Sonya, a tough inmate, and Teleca, a prisoner who lives in a bizarre fantasy world

440 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1984

About the author

I've been teaching at Medgar Evers College CUNY for the past 100 years (maybe 26?) and am still there. For any of you who know my work, I'm back at it. Two books in the pipeline now, both about young girls, one adult fiction, one young adult. I hope to finish both this summer and am applying for a sabbatical in the fall to do nothing but write. Wish me luck!

Reviews

[Nathan "N.R." Gaddis]

Freud Loewenstein, grand-d of Sigmund, has this book, This Place, which NO ONE reads. Billy the Full Metal Mann has this to say about it: "WHICH DESERVES MORE RECOGNITION THAN IT HAS RECEIVED" (bold and screaming caps mine) which deserves note as rather unrestrained praise from that caribou-eater. That comment will be found in a box set of Billy's writings, a box set known among fans as Expelled from Eden etc., in a piece entitled "List of 'Contemporary' Books Most Admired by Vollmann (1990)" (scaredy-cat quotes NOT mine). Those scaredy-cat-quotes, it should be noted, are intended to denote the thought that "By 'contemporary' I'll assume you mean from the last two hundred years."

One should also note that Freud Loewenstein also has a book with the following title which should cause some interest among some corners and crevasses of goodgreads to push pull, rush and steal that cash outa yer collectivized pockets and spend spend spend (all in the name of good clean books): Loathsome Jews and Engulfing Women: Metaphors of Projection in the Works of Wyndham Lewis, Charles Williams, and Graham Greene.

Freud Loewenstein is NOT BURIED if only due to her poor choice in having joined goodreads' "Author Program" but still you may treat her as if she were breathing six feet of earth.