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Blue

by Sarah Van Arsdale
Blue

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“I was taken from the beginning by the subtle, propulsive mix of lyrical and analytical prose in this compact but deep novel about identity and loss, memory and the moment, dream and the everyday life. Blue deals with the mystery of normal experience without clouding the events with so much misty plotting that the reader loses his way. At the same time, it moves along with ease without giving up its claims to seriousness. Best of all, it is a novel that rewards you immediately by its engaging story that rewards you after you read it by its pensive (and memorable) approach to the lives we live.”

- Alan Cheuse

On a rainy night in Intervale, Maine, and unknown woman appears on a bridge. “Blue,” as she comes to be known, has complete retrograde amnesia. Trying to recover fragments of her memory, she becomes the focus of the obsessions of local resident Rita LaPlatte, who attempts to prove that Blue is her “missing” twin. The amnesiac comes under care or Robert Reichman, a psychiatrist who is grappling with his own lost identity as a Jew. Also under the care of Dr. Reichman in Annie Blaise, a psychotic woman who holds the key to the question of both her own identity and Blue’s, and answer not revealed until the book’s last pages.

The Author - Sarah Van Arsdale, who holds an M.F.A. from Vermont College, teaches with the New York Writers Workshop at the Jewish Community Center in New York City and is senior staff writer at Designer Monthly Magazine. Her first novel, Toward Amnesia, was published in 1996 by Riverhead/Putnam. She lives in New York City and Vermont.


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The Author - Sarah Van Arsdale, who holds an M.F.A. from Vermont College, teaches with the New York Writers Workshop at the Jewish Community Center in New York City and is senior staff writer at Designer Monthly Magazine. Her first novel, Toward Amnesia, was published in 1996 by Riverhead/Putnam. She lives in New York City and Vermont.

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ISBN:
9781572332386
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
09/01/2003
Publisher:
University of Tennessee Press
Language:
English
Edition:
1st ed.
Pages:
216
Height:
9.50 in.
Width:
5.98 in.
Thickness:
.66 in.
LCCN:
2003011958
Number of Units:
1
Series Volume:
2432
UPC Code:
2801572332388
Author:
Sarah Van Arsdale
Subject:
Jewism men
Subject:
Maine
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Psychiatrists
Subject:
Amnesia
Subject:
Psychotherapist and patient
Subject:
Psychological
Subject:
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