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Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus (Myths) (Hardback)
$16.89 - Save $3.11 (15%) - RRP $20.00 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Where Three Roads MeetIn the latest retelling of the world's greatest stories in the Myth series, highly regarded novelist Vickers brings to life the Western world's most widely known myth through a shrewdly told exploration of the seminal story in conversations between Freud and Tiresias.
Full description- Publisher: Canongate Us
- Published: 01 August 2008
- Format: Hardback 197 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Fantasy | Myth & Legend Told As Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781847670182 ISBN 10: 1847670180
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Full description for Where Three Roads Meet
From former psychoanalyst and literary novelist Salley Vickers comes a lively and shrewd retelling of the seminal myth of Oedipus, portrayed in a conversation between Freud and TiresiasIt is 1938 when Sigmund Freud arrives in prewar London, into the care of his daughter, Anna. Ailing from the effects of terminal cancer, a morphine-addled Freud slips in and out of consciousness as he considers a lifetime of memories and the foundations of his intellectual convictions. In his final months, Freud's musings are brought to life by the arrival of the blind prophet Tiresias. Visiting the bedridden doctor in his sickroom, Tiresias engages the famed proponent of the Oedipus complex in a drug-induced, lively debate, causing Freud to reassess his life's work.
