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Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus
Salley Vickers
Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus
Canongate
August 2008
On Sale: August 10, 2008
176 pages
ISBN: 1847670180
EAN: 9781847670182
Hardcover
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In the latest retelling of the world’s greatest stories in
the Myth series from Canongate, the highly regarded
novelist Salley Vickers brings to life the Western world’s
most widely known myth, Oedipus, through a shrewdly told
exploration of the seminal story in conversation between
Freud and Tiresias. It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the
debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the
Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking
up residence in the house in Hampstead in which he will die
fifteen months later. But his last months are made vivid by
the arrival of a stranger who comes and goes according to
Freud’s state of health. Who is the mysterious visitor and
why has he come to tell the famed proponent of the Oedipus
complex his strangely familiar story? Set partly in prewar London and partly in ancient Greece,
Where Three Roads Meet is as brilliantly compelling as it
is thoughtful. Former psychoanalyst and acclaimed novelist
Salley Vickers revisits a crime committed long ago that
still has disturbing reverberations for us all today.
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