Blackberries in the Dreamhouse

By Diane Frank

Book Overview

This book offers both a wide range of critical perspectives on cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) from around the world, and substantial responses to them. It represents the first attempt to engage in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887472681
• ISBN13: 9781887472685
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Sunstar Publishing (IA)
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

A poet's novel

Diane Frank is a poet, and to read her work is to experience the best of poetry's lyricism AND the fine development of character in the novel. What I liked best about it is that it held my attention so madly line by line, but that these lines build an amazing, sad and courageous story. It seems to be written underneath day to day reality, written by the sensitive heart of the story. It's poetry, draws me to return to individual sentences, chapters. It cannot be scanned, nor can it be gulped. It must be sipped like a rare ancient Asian wine. I look forward to her next work.

Great Spirit

This is simply one of the most beautiful books I have read. I cautiously shared this choice with a book group of which I am a part not knowing if they would understand what I had felt (many of these readers are seniors). There was no one in this group that did not enjoy the beauty of style and the artistry of the paintings created for us by this talented author.

Blackberries in the Dream House is Superb and Enthralling

There simply is no way to describe what I'm experiencing as you pull me through the mind, heart and soul of this Geisha.....and your writing brings tears to my eyes, as I wonder, "Could I ever find the path of letters to create even one sentence with that kind of power?" I'm not sure why this work isn't on the NY Best Seller List. Every person I have ever met would find meaning in this work. No wonder you wanted me to read this, above all other things. It is a truly a pinnacle ....a masterpiece A Mona Lisa and a Wall of China, all rolled together, and just as mysterious and meaningul, long after the journey to experience great works has passed....the smoke of the wonder reignites. Just amazing work.

A Novel to Savor

I savored each page of this novel, reading many sentences over and over again. The experience was delicious, transporting, expansive, and playful. Diane Frank's sentences are not merely a way to find out what happens next or even a display of her mastery of language (although they do both of these things in a compelling way), but the sentences themselves are like magic spells. Their poetic imagery worked on me like a snake charmer's music. They took me in new directions, regardless of my own nature or intentions. Yukiko, the geisha, is almost angelic in her subtlety, yet, at the same time, strikingly down-to-earth and honest. For me, she began as a stranger and, in the end, became an unexpected mentor, teasing me to live on the lyrical plane she inhabits. Diane Frank put her soul into this story and, in the process of writing it, honed each sentence into fine art.

Blackberries in the Dream House

Blackberries in the Dream HouseSome books take a day or two to read, and then haunt you forever. Blackberries in the Dream House by Diane Frank is like that. I read it while traveling, thinking to pick up a light book. The poetry of each well crafted line compelled me to turn page after page, the erotic subtext kept me prisoner to the last page. Chapter by chapter the lives of once-upon-a-time lovers in Japan, unfold like a silk kimono woven in dream time, iridescent, beautiful, fragrant. Frank populates her pages with dragonflies, thunder storms, dancers, sumi artists, broken wings of angels which turn into shards of glass and pierce lovely feet. I am so happy to have found this book.