THE OTHER SIDE OF YOU
by Salley Vickers
I devoured this book in about 24 hours. What a relief after slogging through two books at once that really, why did I waste my time??? Not even interesting enough to review here on my blog.
But, back to The Other Side of You. I have read several of Vickers' other novels: Mr. Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3, and Miss Garnet's Angel. They were very good reads. So, when I saw this one in the Tumwater Library, I wanted to read it.
Salley Vickers always includes some lessons in Art History in her books, and in this one I learned a lot about psychology as well. The story is from the point of view of a psychiatrist, centering around his work, a patient, his home life.
...an excerpt from an on-line review...
"There is something rare and very special about Vickers as a novelist. In exploring the connections between faith and imagination, art and redemption, religion and science in an intelligent, unusual but very readable way, she manages to touch something buried deep in all of us. It gives her work a quietly compelling quality."
by Salley VickersI devoured this book in about 24 hours. What a relief after slogging through two books at once that really, why did I waste my time??? Not even interesting enough to review here on my blog.
But, back to The Other Side of You. I have read several of Vickers' other novels: Mr. Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3, and Miss Garnet's Angel. They were very good reads. So, when I saw this one in the Tumwater Library, I wanted to read it.
Salley Vickers always includes some lessons in Art History in her books, and in this one I learned a lot about psychology as well. The story is from the point of view of a psychiatrist, centering around his work, a patient, his home life.
...an excerpt from an on-line review...
"There is something rare and very special about Vickers as a novelist. In exploring the connections between faith and imagination, art and redemption, religion and science in an intelligent, unusual but very readable way, she manages to touch something buried deep in all of us. It gives her work a quietly compelling quality."
