Peripheral Vision - Hardcover

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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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