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Highlights
- The suspenseful story of a poor farming family in which each generation holds the next in its deadly, predictable grip until murderous opposition explodes.The characters of The Parts Left Out are all beautifully drawn and sympathetic in their own way, are determined to escape their fate, and some seem close to doing so.Thomas Ogden's debut novel has received international recognition and Best Seller Ranking: Number Four on the Israeli Best Seller List for the year 2017--Ha'Aretz Newspaper ("The New York Times of Israel") Israel's Critics' Choice 2017 Top 10 works of fiction.
- About the Author: Thomas Ogden, MD, published his debut novel, The Parts Left Out, in 2014.
- 206 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Psychological
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Book Synopsis
The suspenseful story of a poor farming family in which each generation holds the next in its deadly, predictable grip until murderous opposition explodes.
The characters of The Parts Left Out are all beautifully drawn and sympathetic in their own way, are determined to escape their fate, and some seem close to doing so.
Thomas Ogden's debut novel has received international recognition and Best Seller Ranking: Number Four on the Israeli Best Seller List for the year 2017--Ha'Aretz Newspaper ("The New York Times of Israel") Israel's Critics' Choice 2017 Top 10 works of fiction.
Review Quotes
"Not only is [Thomas Ogden] the most creative psychoanalytic author writing today, but in this novel he shows himself to be a wonderful teller of tales. The Parts Left Out is an auspicious achievement. As a work of fiction it succeeds in accomplishing the most difficult of feats: to be both a spellbinder and an in-depth exploration of human traits that bring on unspeakable tragedy. Tom Ogden knows the human mind as few do. In The Parts Left Out he demonstrates his remarkable understanding not only of the mind, but of the human heart as well." --Theodore Jacobs, M.D., Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association--Theodore Jacobs, MD
"Ogden writes movingly and convincingly about everyday life, at the same time that he writes tragedy. . . Th[e] dialogue rings true psychologically, at the same time that it is unnerving . . . I do not find this a conventional novel in the sense of offering a smooth or consistent narrative, much less a single point of view. Rather it is jumpy, unsettling . . . [b]ut this is also, I believe, its strength." --Madelon Sprengnether, Regents Professor of English, University of Minnesota, International Journal of Psychoanalysis--Madelon Sprengnether
About the Author
Thomas Ogden, MD, published his debut novel, The Parts Left Out, in 2014. He has also published twelve books of essays on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, and on the writings of Frost, Borges, Kafka, and others. His most recent works of non-fiction include The Analyst's Ear and the Critic's Eye: Rethinking Psychoanalysis and Literature; Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works; 'Rediscovering Psychoanalysis; and This Art of Psychoanalysis: Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries.
His work has been translated into twenty languages. Dr Ogden was awarded the 2012 Sigourney Award for his "contributions to the field of psychoanalysis"; the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize for "outstanding achievement as a psychoanalytic clinician, teacher and theoretician"; and the 2004 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis' Award for "The Most Important Paper of the Year."
He practices psychoanalysis in San Francisco, where he teaches both psychoanalysis and creative writing.