Parallel lines / Edward St. Aubyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

St. Aubyn, Edward, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Therapist and patient--Fiction.

Therapist and patient.

Mental illness--Fiction.

Mental illness.

Adopted children--Family relationships--Fiction.

Adopted children.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Fate and fatalism--Fiction.

Fate and fatalism.

Conduct of life--Fiction.

Conduct of life.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

264 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.

Summary:

The fates of Sebastian and his therapist Martin, as well as radio producer Olivia, best friend Lucy, and husband Francis, are improbably yet inextricably linked in a novel about extinction and survival, inheritance and loss.

It's the summer of 2021, and Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him grappling with his fragile grip on reality and his persistent hunger to connect with the biological mother who abandoned him as a child. His therapist, Martin, is facing challenges of his own, including his adopted daughter's tenuous relationship with her own biological mother--a predicament that makes Sebastian's struggle feel uncannily proximate to her own. Olivia is producing a radio series on catastrophic natural disasters, which itself seems to be running parallel to the events unfolding in her personal life, as her best friend Lucy faces a grave diagnosis, and her husband, Francis, pursues his mission of re-wilding the world. Over the course of the next year their fates collide in outrageous and poignant ways, as each of their destinies is revealed in a marvelous new light.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Sargent fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780593535349

0593535340

OCLC:

1520504939