Originally published in 1983， this bestseller is a compelling portrait of a young woman s experience in psychotherapy. Judith Rossner stunned American with LOOKING

FOR MR. GOODBAR, the vivid, often brutal novel

of a singles bar murder on Manhattan s Upper

West Side.

Now, in AUGUST, you will enter into the

most private reaches of the psychoanalyst s office.

Here, behind dosed doors, in the unsparing

intimacy that must exist between patient and analyst,

Dr. Lulu Shine feld will begin the analysis of

Dawn Henley, a lovely Barnard freshman whose

bizarre childhood and tenuous future have twice

brought her to the edge of suicide.

Parallel to the drama of Dawn s story is the

revelation of Lulu Shinefeld s own private life."

Divorced and the mother of three, her insights

as an analyst will force her to confront the truth of

her relationships with her peers, her lover, and

her children.

Harrowing, fascinating, totally absorbing, AU-

GUST is the story of two women s journeys to-

ward self-discovery. It is very much a story of

our time---.a novel of love and loss and the healing

strength of self-knowledge that critics across

America have hailed as Judith Rossner s finest book.