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Agatha / Anne Cathrine Bomann; translated from the Danish by Caroline Waight.
Van Pelt Library PT8177.12.O43 A713 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bomann, Anne Cathrine, 1983- author.
- Series:
- Literature in translation series
- Standardized Title:
- Agathe. English
- Language:
- Danish
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatrists--Fiction.
- Psychiatrists.
- Older men--Fiction.
- Older men.
- Self-realization--Fiction.
- Self-realization.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 145 pages 22 cm
- Edition:
- First English Canadian edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : Book*hug Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "A psychiatrist is counting down toward his upcoming retirement. He lives alone in his childhood home and has neither friends nor family. Often, he resorts to drawing bird caricatures of his patients instead of taking notes. His social life consists of brief conversations with his meticulous secretary, Madame Surrugue, who has reigned over the clinic for more than thirty years. The two of them have no relationship outside the office, where everything runs smoothly and uneventfully. Until one day, that is, when a young German woman called Agatha arrives and demands to see the doctor, and he soon realizes that underneath her fragile exterior is a strong and fascinating woman. The doctor and Agatha embark upon a course of therapy together, a process that forces the doctor to confront his fear of true intimacy outside the clinic. But is it too late to reconsider your existence as a seventy-one-year-old?"-- Provided by publisher.
- "A psychiatrist is counting down toward his upcoming retirement. He lives alone in his childhood home and has neither friends nor family. Often, he resorts to drawing bird caricatures of his patients instead of taking notes. His social life consists of brief conversations with his meticulous secretary, Madame Surrugue, who has reigned over the clinic for more than thirty years. The two of them have no relationship outside the office, where everything runs smoothly and uneventfully. Until one day, that is, when a young German woman called Agatha arrives and demands to see the doctor, and he soon realizes that underneath her fragile exterior is a strong and fascinating woman. The doctor and Agatha embark upon a course of therapy together, a process that forces the doctor to confront his fear of true intimacy outside the clinic. But is it too late to reconsider your existence as a seventy-one-year-old?"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Intro
- Praise for Agatha
- Maths
- Panes
- Traces
- Uproar
- Growing pains
- Agatha I
- The invisible friend
- Agatha II
- Water lilies
- Agatha III
- Between us
- Agatha IV
- The letter
- Agatha V
- The looking glass
- Tchaikovsky
- Agatha VI
- The deaf, the mute, and the blind
- The visit
- Astray
- Agatha VII
- Where death is
- Agatha VIII
- Snow
- Agatha IX
- Love
- The decision
- Coffee
- Agatha X
- Swimming
- Little things
- Clearing out
- Agatha XI
- Figure/background
- Peace
- Home
- Agatha XII
- Notes:
- Translation of: Agathe.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bomann, Anne Cathrine, 1983- Agathe. English. Agatha.
- ISBN:
- 9781771666459
- 1771666455
- OCLC:
- 1162850026
- Publisher Number:
- 99992522207
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