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Postmodernism is a contemporary movement. that poses significant challenges to con ventional assumptions of knowledge, rationality, truth, and objectivity. The. concept of postmodernity also ...
Chapter 10 presents Kathy for the first time. Theo clearly idolizes Kathy, describing her as an angel who gave him his first taste of true love. Where Theo is somber, antisocial, and melancholy, Kathy is spontaneous, charismatic, and joyful. Theo’s language is rapturous when he describes Kathy, who lives her life exuberantly and introduces ...
The Silent Patient Summary. Theo Faber, a respected psychotherapist, describes a sensational murder from six years earlier. Late one August night, Alicia Berenson, a renowned painter, shot her husband Gabriel five times in the face. After the murder, Alicia was tried, found guilty, and institutionalized at the Grove, a psychiatric ward.
Feb 5, 2019 · The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one ...
Once famous as a talented painter of photo-realistic art, Alicia gains worldwide notoriety when she shoots Gabriel in the face five times, seemingly without any motivation. In the years following the murder, Alicia falls completely silent, communicating only through a self-portrait titled Alcestis, after the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides ...
by Alex MichaelidesCeladon Books, February 2019, $26.99. One hot August night in London at the crest of an unprecedented heat wave, Alicia Berenson, an emotionally fragile painter on the cusp of art-world stardom, shoots her beloved husband Gabriel, a renowned fashion photographer, five times in the face. She doesn’t confess, doesn’t ...
The Silent Patient is deeply interested in art, and the different ways in which people interpret art. Much like Alicia’s paintings, Alcestis is a complex work that defies any easy interpretation, and yet making sense of the ancient Greek tragedy is central to understanding the mystery surrounding Gabriel’s murder.
