Salley Vickers
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Biblical Magi...Driver and Jim Button and the Wild 13, one of the Three Kings plays a major role in one of the main character's background. Salley Vickers's Miss Garnet's Angel links the Epiphany story, and arrival of the Magi, with the ancient... In this article: Biblical Magi, Jesus, Gospel of Matthew, Myrrh, Epiphany, Frankincense, and John Chrysostom |
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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
Tiresias
...song "The Cinema Show" from their 1973 album Selling England by the Pound, refers to "father Tiresias" and his dual sexuality. In 2007 Salley Vickers imagined a series of conversations between Tiresias and Sigmund Freud as part of the...
In this article: Zeus, Creon, Oedipus, Hera, Apollo, Antigone, Athena, and Thebes
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Canongate Myth Series
...the United Kingdom on November 1, 2007: Binu and the Great Wall by Su Tong, Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith, and Where Three Roads Meet by Salley Vickers. Instalments in the series are also forthcoming from the authors Donna Tartt (writing about...
In this article: Canongate Myth Series, Metro, Canongate Books, Karen Armstrong, Daedalus and Icarus, Donna Tartt, A. S. Byatt, Su Tong, and Natsuo Kirino
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Salley Vickers
Salley Vickers is an English novelist whose works include the word-of-mouth bestseller Miss Garnet's Angel, Mr. Golightly's Holiday, The Other Side of You and Where Three Roads Meet, a retelling of the Oedipus myth to Sigmund Freud in the...
In this article: Literature, London, Psychology, Republicanism, Open University, Canongate Myth Series, Oxford University, and Cambridge University
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Independent.co.uk - Books | July 25, 2009
Dancing Backwards, By Salley Vickers
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scotsman.com - Books | July 04, 2009
Hot lines: Holiday reading
...is better, after the years of captivity, than the insecurity of being free. Everyone should read this. I've just finished Salley Vickers' marvellous new novel, Dancing Backwards. It's a book about giving and taking and about the...
In this article: JG Ballard, Iggy Pop, and Batman
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Prodigal son parable wins Orange Prize
...did not detract from the success of Home as a standalone novel. Reviewing the novel for The Independent, the author Salley Vickers wrote: "Home is not a novel in which plot matters. Like Jane Austen, but in a different key, Robinson's...
In this article: Marilynne Robinson, Orange Prize, Gilead, Fi Glover, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and BBC Radio 4
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Daily Mail | May 16, 2009
For years I never went anywhere without a paper bag... Breathing into one helped my panic attacks
...News) and Carol Shields (The Stone Diaries) all won Pulitzers, America's top literary prize. These and other writers, including Salley Vickers (Miss Garnet's Angel) and Hilary Mantel (The Giant O'Brien) were also my friends. There was...
In this article: Panic attack, Anxiety, Alprazolam, Cipramil, London, Human, Mercury, and Oxygen
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Scotland on Sunday | March 14, 2009
Radio briefs
...Symphony), May will share his own musical driving memories. Afternoon Play a Where Three Roads Meet (BBC Radio 4, Monday, 2.15pm) is Salley Vickers' dramatisation of her novel on the Oedipus myth. Flitting between Freud's London study in...
In this article: BBC Radio 4, Adolf Hitler, Oedipus, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, BBC Radio 2, Third Reich & Roll, Sunset Song, and Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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Independent.co.uk - Books | June 21, 2008
Where Three Roads Meet, By Salley Vickers
Without the ingenious narrative structure of Sophocles's telling of it, with its simultaneous forward momentum and dread flashbacks, Salley Vickers's version of King Oedipus for Canongate's excellent Myths series lacks dramatic impact. But the...
In this article: Sigmund Freud, Cancer, Oedipus, Sophocles, and Austria
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Guardian Unlimited | April 11, 2008
Salley Vickers on the Minotaur myth Books The Guardian
...and riddles, the Minotaur myth has fascinated generations of artists. As Harrison Birtwistle transforms it into an opera, Salley Vickers explores its labyrinthine meanings The hallmark of a myth that it recurs, perennially being revised and...
In this article: Minos, Theseus, David Harsent, Pasiphae, Harrison Birtwistle, Pablo Picasso, The Minotaur, and Athens
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Salley Vickers is an English novelist whose works include the word-of-mouth bestseller "Miss Garnet's Angel','"Mr Golightly's Holiday'","'The Other Side of You'" and "'Where Three Roads Meet'", a retelling of the Oedipus myth to Sigmund Freud in the last months of his life. Her books touch on big philosophical themes of religion, art, creativity and death. She also writes poetry.
She was born in Liverpool in 1948. Her mother was a social worker and her father a trades union leader, both members of the British communist party until 1956 and then very committed socialists. She was brought up in Stoke-on-Trent and London, and read English Literature at Cambridge University. Following this, she taught children with special needs and then English literature at Stanford, Oxford and the Open University and was a WEA and further education tutor for adult education classes.
She then trained as an Jungian analytical psychotherapist, working in the NHS and also specialised in helping people who were creatively blocked. She gave up her psychoanalytic work in 2002, although she still lectures on the connections between literature and psychology. She now writes full time and lives in London.
Her father was a committed supporter of Irish republicanism and her first name, "Salley", is spelled with an 'e' because it is the Irish for 'willow' (from the Latin: salix, salicis) as in the W B Yeats poem, "Down by the salley gardens" a favourite of her parents.
She has two sons from her first marriage. In 2002, her second marriage, to the Irish writer and broadcaster Frank Delaney, was dissolved.
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