Ваша оценкаThe 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 i...
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Williwaw11 декабря 2013 г.Читать далееРоман, похожий на чашку тончайшего фарфора. Ручной работы, поэтому есть и неровности, и щербинки. Но всё равно это прекрасно написанная книга, поэтичная и печальная. Главный герой — психотерапевт Дэвид, он работает в лондонской клинике для душевнобольных, а вечера любит проводить с романами Джейн Остен. Однажды к нему попадает новая пациентка после неудавшейся попытки самоубийства. Несмотря на её молчание и отрешенность, он незаметно проникается к ней симпатией и чувствует в ней родственную душу. Одним зимним вечером Элизабет всё же решается рассказать свою историю… и это оказывается тонкая, нежная и щемящая история о любви, искусстве, судьбоносных совпадениях и картинах Караваджо.
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- Williwaw22 марта 2014 г.
The reasons for choice of partner are obscure and what passes for love is generally a decidedly mixed bag: lust, anxiety, lack of self-worth, sadism, brutality, the need to control, the urge to be looked after; most dangerous of all, the desire to save.
211 - Williwaw22 марта 2014 г.
I had a habit I'd picked up from Gus Galen, who supervised my analytic training. He told me that all he needed to know about a patient could be written down on a postcard. When a course of treatment finished, he said he often looked back and saw that everything that had been uncovered could be discerned in what he had noted there. 'It's all in how you interpret information,' he added. 'It can take years to understand in your head what your gut knows from the start.'
147 - Williwaw22 марта 2014 г.
"At that time, Jane Austen was my staple reading, a bulwark, I dare say, against my more disturbing professional encounters. For me to think of someone as a character in Jane Austen was a compliment. But, truth to tell, psychiatric patients are not really Jane Austen people. The Austen world has its quota of narcissists, hypochondriacs, low-grade psychotics, and the marginally depressed. But none would fetch up in a psychiatric unit."
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