Impostures (Fiction) (French Edition)

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But also, Tom believes he can be a better Dickie than Dickie can. It does something to your outlook on life,' He had heard it before. He was waiting for something profound and original from Dickie. The True Story of a Woman Possessed by 16 Separate Personalities by Flora Rheta Schreiber Here we have a woman who consists of 16 personalities, including babies, little boys, and teenage girls.

All because of lurid abuse she suffered as a child. No wonder this book became an instant bestseller. I, for one, discovered it on my parents' bookshelf, age 10, and had nothing short of a revelation on how fascinating life can be. Connie Wilbur and author Flora Rheta Schreiber, who, when Sybil came to them saying, "Um, actually I don't have multiple personalities. I was pretending," chose to ignore her and promote the story for their own rewards.

Babo from Benito Cereno by Herman Melville In Melville's haunting short story, Captain Delano, at sea, boards a bedraggled ship full of white sailors and black slaves where something seems He meets their captain Don Benito Cereno who is accompanied, every moment, by his attentive, affectionate personal slave, Babo. In one fascinating scene, Delano watches Babo dutifully and punctiliously shave Benito Cereno with a gleaming razor and has this thought: But this was one of those antic conceits, appearing and vanishing in a breath Nathan Landau from Sophie's Choice by William Styron In a novel about the Holocaust, where identity is death, and characters are desperate to claim any identity but their own Sophie tries to convince her Nazi boss to raise her Polish son as German in the Lebensborn program , the character Nathan Sophie's post-war lover represents another extreme form of impostorism.

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Both Sophie and young writer Stingo the narrator of Sophie's Choice believe Nathan to be a genius cell biologist working at Pfizer and on the cusp of discovering the cure for cancer. The cure for cancer!

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When it turns out Nathan is actually a delusional paranoid schizophrenic, lying about everything, Stingo's entire world is called into question. Sam from Have You Found Her by Janice Erlbaum In this fantastic memoir, Erlbaum recounts volunteering at a teen homeless shelter, where she subconsciously searches for a girl who reminds her of her troubled younger self.

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None of the girls do, until she meets Sam-- a snarky white girl junkie with a poverty-stricken, abusive past, who also, it appears, is a child prodigy. Janice becomes obsessed with Sam, devoting her life to trying to save her, until We read in horror as it's revealed Sam is actually a mentally ill girl from a privileged home suffering from Munchausen's Syndrome, which leads to her do things such as inject fecal matter into her own eye.

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