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The Revisionist
Contributor(s): Roberts, Tobias (Author)
ISBN: 1628973218     ISBN-13: 9781628973211
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
OUR PRICE:   $22.46  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Thrillers - Psychological
- Fiction | Family Life - Marriage & Divorce
Dewey: 813.6
Series: American Literature
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.90 lbs) 307 pages
 
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The Revisionist is a novel of many voices, brilliantly arranged. Its themes are mysterious, its tone compassionate, its conclusions beguiling.

In Tobias Roberts's first novel, we are presented with a series of clinical, historical, and literary documents, outlining the lives and tragedies of the psychiatrist Isaac Himmelfarb and his wife, Sarah, whose marriage is strained by the grief of a miscarriage.

At the same time, Sarah's recently deceased father, Doctor Zachary Weiss, has bequeathed her still other papers, which detail his psychoanalytic sessions with a patient of his named Pierce. It seems this man Pierce claimed to have developed the ability to revise reality by means of his dreams. This is an ability that the curious Doctor Weiss cannot help but put to the test and that a heartbroken Sarah cannot help but hope is real.