The Treatment (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Daniel Menaker
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The early 1970’s
- Setting: New York City and New England
- Principal Characters: Jake Singer, Dr. Singer, Dr. Ernesto Morales, Samira Khoury, Allegra Marshall, Emily, George, Sarah Gibson, Robby, Paul Sullivan, Paul Winship, W. C. H. Proctor, Walter Cooper, Jim Galgano, Jennifer Petroski
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Teaching or teachers, Love or romance, Psychology or psychologists, Marriage, Abandoned children, Mental illness, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts
- Locales: New York, NY, New England
The Treatment is Daniel Menaker’s first novel, but he is no rookie. The author of two critically well-received short-story collections and for five years a senior editor at Random House after twenty-five years under three editors at The New Yorker, the fifty-seven-year-old Menaker, like E. L. Doctorow, may be out of sequence as a novelist, but he is never out of synch. In fact, The Treatment is so deftly crafted thematically as to risk undermining its characters, with one notable and saving exception.
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