The World Is Made Of Glass (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Boards slightly faded. Binding remains tight. Clean copy.
A sweeping work of literary historical fiction, The World Is Made of Glass chronicles the story of Magda von Gamsfeld, a troubled and fiercely complex woman who seeks out the legendary Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung in 1913 for a series of clandestine sessions. Morris West constructs a psychologically intense narrative that uncovers the darkest corners of human desire, guilt, and self-destruction through the charged dynamic between patient and analyst. Drawing on the real figure of Jung and the early, turbulent days of psychoanalysis, the novel presents a portrait of a woman whose confessions are as shocking as they are deeply human. West's prose is measured yet electrifying, balancing the clinical world of the emerging science of the mind with raw, visceral emotion. The result is a haunting meditation on sin, identity, and the terrifying fragility of the self — a reminder that the examined life can be as dangerous as it is illuminating.
Author: Morris West
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Hodder & Stoughton
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Boards slightly faded. Binding remains tight. Clean copy.
A sweeping work of literary historical fiction, The World Is Made of Glass chronicles the story of Magda von Gamsfeld, a troubled and fiercely complex woman who seeks out the legendary Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung in 1913 for a series of clandestine sessions. Morris West constructs a psychologically intense narrative that uncovers the darkest corners of human desire, guilt, and self-destruction through the charged dynamic between patient and analyst. Drawing on the real figure of Jung and the early, turbulent days of psychoanalysis, the novel presents a portrait of a woman whose confessions are as shocking as they are deeply human. West's prose is measured yet electrifying, balancing the clinical world of the emerging science of the mind with raw, visceral emotion. The result is a haunting meditation on sin, identity, and the terrifying fragility of the self — a reminder that the examined life can be as dangerous as it is illuminating.