Blake's Therapy: A Novel [Paperback]

In Blake's Therapy, Ariel Dorfman takes us on a whirlwind ride through the desires of one man to find something real in a virtual world.

After suffering a mental breakdown, Graham Blake checks into the Corporate Life Therapy Institute, where the self-assured, silver-tongued Dr. Carl Tolgate has prepared a strange, shocking, and erotic treatment. Now Blake must find out, before it is too late, who is controlling his life, his company’s future, and his own heart.“If Kafka were alive today, he would write something similar to Blake's Therapy.” –José Saramago


“Ariel Dorfman returns to his icon-skewering best with this new novel.” –Washington Post


“[Dorfman] deftly carves up the corporate world in his new novel.” –Miami Herald


“[A] complex and challenging thriller, as well as a daring attempt to distill the nature of good and evil.” –Kirkus ReviewsARIEL DORFMAN is considered to be one of “the greatest Latin American novelists” (Newsweek) and one of the United States’ most important cultural and political voices. Dorfman's numerous works of fiction and nonfiction have been translated into more than thirty languages, including Death and the Maiden, which has been produced in over one hundred countries and made into a film by Roman Polanski. Dorfman has won many international awards, including the Sudamericana Award, the Laurence Olivier, and two from the Kennedy Center. He is distinguished professor at Duke University and lives in Durham, North Carolina.US