The Other (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Tryon
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—extrasensory powers
- Time of Work: The 1970’s, with flashbacks to the 1930’s
- Setting: Pequot Landing, Connecticut
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1970’s, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Murder or homicide, Extrasensory perception or powers, 1930’s, New England, Mental illness, Connecticut, Twins or multiple-birth siblings
- Locales: Connecticut
The Plot
The Other, related through the consciousness of Niles Perry, an inmate in a mental institution, concerns the events that almost annihilated his family decades earlier. Niles and his twin brother, Holland, lived with their grandmother, mother and father, stepsister, and other relatives on a farm in a small community in Connecticut in the 1930’s. Ada, the grandmother, was a Russian gypsy with supernatural powers, including “mystic transference,” the ability to empathize so completely with another person or an animal as to feel exactly what the other...
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