The Other Side of You - Rilegato

Vickers, Salley

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0374221901 ISBN 13: 9780374221904

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007

Riassunto

For psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr. David McBride, death exerts an unusual draw. Despite his profession, he has never come to terms with the violent accident that took his brother’s life, a trauma that has shaped his personality and subsequent choice of career. But when a failed suicide, Elizabeth Cruikshank, comes into his care, he finds the deepest reaches of his suppressed history being reactivated. Elizabeth is mysteriously reticent about her own past and it is not until David recalls a painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio that she finally yields her story. As she recounts the chance encounter which took her to Rome, and her tragic tale of passion and betrayal, David begins to find a strange and disturbing reflection of his own loss in the haunted “other side” of this elusive woman. Through one long night’s dialogue they journey together into a past which brings painful new insight and uncertain resolution to each of them.   The Other Side of You is a powerful meditation on art, and on love in all its manifestations. In distinctive, graceful prose, Salley Vickers explores the ways both love and art can penetrate the complexities of the human heart, to invade and change our being, and the possibilities of regeneration through another’s vision and understanding.

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L'autore:

A former psychologist and professor of English, Salley Vickers is the author of Miss Garnet's Angel, Instances of the Number 3 (FSG, 2002), and Mr. Golightly’s Holiday (FSG, 2004). She lives in London.

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Book by Vickers Salley

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0374221901
• ISBN 13: 9780374221904
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 262