A private sorcery
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Lisa Gornick.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Psychiatrists -- Fiction; Psychotherapist and patient -- Fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Married people -- Fiction; Drug abuse -- Fiction; Prisoners -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "When Saul Dubinsky, a shy, soft-spoken psychiatrist, is arrested in the middle of the night and charged with second-degree manslaughter, his wife, Rena, and father, Leonard, are stunned. They know Saul to be a sweet, hard-working, and idealistic young man. What they don't know is the extent to which his despair over the attempted suicide of a patient pushed him into a nightmare of drugs and crime.".

"As Rena and Leonard each visit him in prison, they discover that Saul had kept many secrets, and as they try to reconcile the man they love with the man behind bars, they face their own dark pasts. Rena, a successful political consultant, confronts the failures of her marriage and an affair she had years earlier with an aspiring politician who changed her life.

Leonard, who'd long ago abandoned the practice of psychiatry, finds that he can no longer deny his role in his wife's illness nor evade the memory of a patient who altered the course of his own career." "In journeys that traverse the highlands of Guatemala, the hidden villages of the Pyrenees, and the deepest recesses of the mind, Rena and Leonard draw closer - and a magical transformation occurs."--BOOK JACKET.