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Oedipal complexities in a modern, digital backdrop.
If you’re drawn to psychological dramas that entwine family dynamics with a hint of darkness, "The Deadly Space Between" could captivate you. It delves into the depths of Toby Hawk's confined existence, which is starkly upended by a mysterious stranger. The novel's exploration of taboo and psyche under the lens of a seemingly ordinary life could offer you a thrilling and introspective journey.
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ISBN: 9780330490108
Authors:
Patricia Duncker
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2003-01-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.05
(rated by 255 readers)
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Toby Hawk is a solitary boy in a family of Amazons. His mother, only fifteen years older than him, is a painter on the brink of commercial success. His great-aunt is a wealthy textile designer; her partner, Liberty, a barrister. Meanwhile, eighteen-year-old Toby's world remains a small, closed round of school, domesticity and surfing the Net at night. But everything changes when his mother takes up with a fascinating but enigmatic scientist, Roehm. Patricia Duncker's gripping novel is a disturbing tale of Oedipal passion. It is also an eerie psychological ghost story in the European tradition, whose sources - Freud, Faust and Frankenstein - haunt the pages.
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Oedipal complexities in a modern, digital backdrop.
If you’re drawn to psychological dramas that entwine family dynamics with a hint of darkness, "The Deadly Space Between" could captivate you. It delves into the depths of Toby Hawk's confined existence, which is starkly upended by a mysterious stranger. The novel's exploration of taboo and psyche under the lens of a seemingly ordinary life could offer you a thrilling and introspective journey.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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