TWICE LONG-LISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE, PATRICIA Ferguson’s fiction is distinguished by sophisticated psychological portraits and sharp, observant prose. In Peripheral Vision, Ferguson tells a story of doctors, nurses, patients, injury and loss, making powerful use of true-to-life surgical detail while simultaneously exploring the different ways we experience and transcend suffering. Peripheral Vision opens in 1995 with Sylvia, a highly competent eye surgeon who stumbles into love and motherhood only to find herself terrified of both. Next comes Ruby, a 1950’s housewife. Ruby’s interior life is so distorted by rage and shame that when she begins to receive poison pen letters, she actually believes she deserves them. Gentle Iris is the young nurse who attends Ruby’s son after an accident. She and a young, upper-middle-class medical student have fallen in love. Iris is so close to happiness, but forces of snobbery and random fate are conspiring against her. Over the course of this gripping, intricately plotted novel, the subtle connections between these three women are gradually and surprisingly revealed.
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Recensione:
Omaha World-Herald
“...erudite reading... [that gives] a sense of breathlessness for the reader anxious to know the next piece of a character's story...a fine undertaking for the reader.”
Vogue
“... Fiction finds suspense in twisting tales of love and legacy. ... Patricia Ferguson's deftly plotted Peripheral Vision revolves around three women- a fifties-era housewife traumatized by her son's damaged eye, a shy working-class nurse involved with a wealthy medical student, and a contemporary eye surgeon blind to her own misperceptions- who struggle to bring their lives into focus.”
Library Journal
“Ferguson makes excellent use of flashback and alternating...illustrating the subtle yet telling influences people can have on one another in even the most innocent of interactions...Fans of literary fiction will appreciate the novel's wit and quietly apt observations on the human condition.”
ForeWord Magazine
“Crisp dialogue, trenchant observations, and crystalline details that coalesce into an indelible whole...Readers looking for a ‘sure thing’ would be wise to cast their sights on this emerging British novelist.”
The New York Times Book Review
A deepening of the story. . . . Pemper argues that the 'crucial accomplishment' was not the list itself but 'the multifarious acts of resistance that, like tiny stones being placed into a mosaic one by one, had made the whole process possible'...Pemper devotes most of his carefully written book to the numerous small initiatives that, in his telling, played a part in the rescue effort."
L'autore:
Patricia Ferguson trained and worked as a nurse and midwife, and this experience informs much of her fiction. She is the author of six novels, including It So Happens (2005) and Peripheral Vision (2007), both long-listed for the Orange Prize. Peripheral Vision is her first novel to be published in the United States. Ferguson lives in Bristol, England.
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- EditoreOther Pr Llc
- Data di pubblicazione2008
- ISBN 10 1590512871
- ISBN 13 9781590512876
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine366
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