{"product_id":"ballad-of-the-black-and-blue-mind-isbn-9781609806088","title":"Ballad of the Black and Blue Mind","description":"In the rarefied world of New York City psychoanalysts and their patients, Dr. Estelle Berman belongs to a dying breed. A distinguished analyst who lives and practices on the Upper West Side, she inspires devotion among her patients. But she has started falling asleep during meetings and forgetting her patients' names. Her colleagues Dr. H. and Dr. Z. observe her mental decline with the objectivity of a Greek chorus, but when it comes to the disappointments in their own lives they are far less detached. And then there are the patients themselves: Justine, a movie star with a penchant for stealing things; Edith, who writes poems in secret and eats to subdue feelings of panic; Anna, a self-harming college student whose depression baffles her parents; and Mike Wilson, a widower whose disgraced son has fled the country. \u003ci\u003eBallad of the Black and Blue Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of psychological realities, teeming humanity, and glorious contradictions.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eBallad of the Black and Blue Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eBallad of the Black and Blue Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, Anne Roiphe has given us an up-close portrait of an insular and rarely glimpsed world, serving up a memorable cast of characters with uncommon verve and wisdom.  This is as engaging and moving a novel as I've read in a long time.\" \u003cb\u003e—Daphne Merkin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fame Lunches\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In laying bare some tribal mores of life and work in a tight-knit psychoanalytic community, Anne Roiphe soon comes upon her real subject, the thwarted love between parents and children, caught between hope and disappointment, a prey to neglect, misunderstanding, and helpless apprehension. Her writing is alive with unsparing insight and keen feeling.\" \u003cb\u003e—Morris Dickstein, author of \u003ci\u003eGates of Eden\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDancing in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eArt and Madness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To capture the spirit of those prefeminist days Ms. Roiphe ... must write intelligently about a time when, at least in matters of love, sex, marriage, motherhood, career and literary hero worship, she was not very smart at all. Art and Madness accomplishes all this ... Ms. Roiphe is sharply perceptive about the flesh-and-blood people around her. And she is witty about the ones who live in her imagination.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Roiphe’s sharp, dazzling memoir of her literary youth in late 1950s and early 1960s New York City contains a dark story of untenable marriages, alcoholism, and outrageous sexism … She is a masterly writer: her work presents vivid, priceless snapshots of the roiling era of Communist hysteria, faddish homosexuality, male privilege, and the heartbreaking fragility of talented men and their dreams of fame.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eFruitful: A Real Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Her riff on motherhood is passionate, lyrical, witty, insightful, commonsensical and off the wall. It will evoke shudders of recognition from anyone who has cared for a child.\" \u003cb\u003e—Emily MacFarquhar, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA writer, essayist, and journalist known for explorations of feminism and Judaism, \u003cb\u003eANNE ROIPHE \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in New York City in 1935. She is revered for such novels as \u003ci\u003eUp the Sandbox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1185 Park Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLovingkindness\u003c\/i\u003e, and for her memoirs \u003ci\u003eArt and Madness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to her eighteen fiction and non-fiction books, she has written articles for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. For many years she wrote regular columns for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Observer \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eJerusalem Report\u003c\/i\u003e. Roiphe’s 1997 memoir, \u003ci\u003eFruitful\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in New York.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305105314021,"sku":"NP9781609806088","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ballad-of-the-black-and-blue-mind-isbn-9781609806088","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}