· Though 98 Reasons for Being is held together by the narrative thread of Hoffmann's counseling of a patient, Hannah Meyer, who has been brought to him by her mother and is said to be a nymphomaniac, Dudman made the fine decision to have the book be a panoramic view of life inside the asylum, so we spend nearly as much time with other patients and their caretakers as we do with Author: Matthew Cheney. · 98 Reasons for Being by Clare Dudman. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , 98 Reasons for Being [Dudman, Clare] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. 98 Reasons for Being.
98 REASONS FOR BEING follows Dr Hoffmann as he struggles to establish a cure for both Hannah and the other 97 patients in his asylum - and the tales from STRUWWELPETER, which have been described by one of Freud's early followers, Georg Groddeck,as one of the earliest examples of psychoanalystical literature, come to illustrate aspects of his. That Clare Dudman's second novel, 98 Reasons for Being, is about Heinrich Hoffmann (the German doctor who wrote the classic and somewhat sadistic children's book Strewwelpeter) was enough to interest me.I had read Dudman's first novel, One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead (titled Wegener's Jigsaw outside the U.S.), and though for some reason I didn't find it entirely engaging, I had been. Buy 98 Reasons for Being by Dudman, Clare from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. 98 Reasons for Being: www.doorway.ru: Dudman, Clare: Books.
Click to read more about 98 Reasons for Being by Clare Dudman. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Clare Dudman was born in North Wales. She has a PhD in Chemistry and has worked as a postdoctoral Research Associate in UMIST, a development scientist in industry, a science teacher, a lecturer and as a creative writing tutor for the WEA and the MA in creative writing at University College Chester. She is a member of the Welsh Academy. Novelists seem to be taking on ever more challenging and imaginative topics on which to base their narratives. Such is the case with Clare Dudman’s second book, 98 Reasons for Being. The book is categorized as a biographical novel because it is based, in large part, on a real doctor: Heinrich Hoffmann (not the other man of the same name, a friend of Aldolf Hitler) and his mental institution in 19th-century Frankfurt, Germany.
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