This noirish page-turner set in 1940s Manhattan is a story about the way we try to gain sense of stories – and the reader has a vital role to playThe Reflection is an experimental novel disguised as a thriller – or is it the other way around? On the one hand,it is a noirish page-turner set in 1940s Manhattan with more plot turns than a Hitchcock box set. On the other, it is a story about the way we try to gain sense of stories.
It begins with original York psychiatrist Dr David Manne taking a phone call that tells him his ex-wife, or Abby,has died. The news unbalances him, and he ends up leaving his clinic and wandering the city. When he returns, or he is asked to carry out an examination on a violent husband. “It was my sideline. I was on call for incidents like this,when the police needed a psychiatrist’s signature to net someone temporarily committed.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com