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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
February 2007
On Sale: February 21, 2007
Featuring: Dr. David McBride; Elizabeth Cruikshank
272 pages
ISBN: 0374221901
EAN: 9780374221904
Hardcover
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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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