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Chargement... The Other Side of You (2006)par Salley Vickers
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. David McBride is a psychiatrist. He appears to be a patient doctor and good at his job. His new patient Elizabeth sits in his room and says little. David has a lively and fun friend, Gus, and he introduces David to Caravaggio and this turns out to be his way in to reach Elizabeth. We also meet David's wife and Bar, who he had a previous relationship with and has now married his best friend. The novel moves from the claustrophobic consulting room and Gus' shabby room to the extensive beauty of Rome. Elizabeth's story resonates with David and his life changes. A good read. ( ) “After so devastating a disappointment it would make sense to turn to a Neil” I read one of Vickers’ previous novels in my pre-blogging days, Miss Garnet’s Angel, and remember that it was mostly about a painting of Tobit or Tobias or Toblerone or some such personage. I did remember enjoying it though. And thus I seemed to be stepping into very familiar territory with The Other Side of You, which has a simple enough narrative structure – a few days in the life of psychologist and analyst Davey McBride, in which he treats some patients and interacts with colleagues and tries to figure out why his wife is being a bit strange. One patient proves particularly challenging, a suicide outside the normal mood of desperation and cries for help; rather a woman who had no wish to continue living. Our protagonist feels a deep affinity with Mrs Cruikshank, but she takes a frustratingly long time to open up to him. What she does yield is a passion for Caravaggio, one shared by the doctor’s mentor. And this is where Vickers shines – her narrative is a pleasant enough construct for an emotional response to a series of Caravaggio’s artworks; Dr McBride returns to the National Gallery at one point and falls in love with Caravaggio’s The Last Supper. The novel is religious without being proselytising – Vickers engrosses us in the culture of faith, not the practice. McBride makes numerous references to the men on the road to Emmaus, a story I’ve never understood well (what is its point? That Jesus chose to reveal Himself resurrected away from the crowd? That He wanted to test their loyalty first?) and delves into the tragedy of the men who have just lost their friend and leader, rather than the joy of reunion. *minor spoiler alert* I’m so bored with infidelity. It seems to be in every book. It’s always the slightly controversial story on the side. That’s all I’m going to say here – Vickers takes the adultery storyline quite a lot further than most, with it being the focus of both Elizabeth and Olivia’s stories. Is there no other source of drama in adult interaction? *end spoilers* Clever writing, fascinating characters and a bridge into the art world. I want to take the book with me back to all those Roman churches The Book Accumulator dragged me around when I was 14.
Salley Vickers's new novel has two hearts. The first is an extraordinary, boundary-busting seven-hour exchange between a psychiatrist and his patient, a middle-aged woman who has attempted suicide for reasons that she has been unwilling to disclose and who seems intent on trying again. The second is an account of a briefly brilliant but doomed love affair between a married woman and an art historian, Thomas Carrington. The failed suicide and the married woman are one and the same, Elizabeth Cruikshank. Love and pain, death and life, self-knowledge and insensibility - all these big, vital themes converge in this moving, utterly engrossing new novel by Salley Vickers, author of Miss Garnet's Angel and Mr Golightly's Holiday. The word "love" appears on nearly every page, yet Vickers is neither sentimental nor cynical in her treatment of the subject. A former psychoanalyst, she handles her material with a carer's sensitivity. Caring matters in her world more than anything; so much, in fact, that not only is a patient "put right" by her analyst's care, the analyst, too, comes to re-evaluate the wrong turns in his life.
The brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of 'Mr Golightly's Holiday' and 'Miss Garnet's Angel'. 'There is no cure for being alive.' Thus speaks Dr David McBride, a psychiatrist for whom death exerts an unusual draw. As a young child he witnessed the death of his six-year-old brother and it is this traumatic event which has shaped his own personality and choice of profession. One day a failed suicide, Elizabeth Cruikshank, is admitted to his hospital. She is unusually reticent and it is not until he recalls a painting by Caravaggio that she finally yields up her story. We learn of Elizabeth Cruikshank's dereliction of trust, and the man she has lost, through David's narration. As her story unfolds, David finds his own life being touched by a sense that the 'other side' of his elusive patient has a strange resonance for him, too. Set partly in Rome, 'The Other Side of You' explores the theme of redemption through love and art, which has become a hallmark of Salley Vickers's acclaimed work, which includes 'Mr Golightly's Holiday' and 'Miss Garnet's Angel'. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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