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The Alcoholics

Autor Jim Thompson Cuvânt înainte de Doug Dorst
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 aug 2014
Dr. Peter S. Murphy needs fifteen thousand dollars by the end of the day, or the city of Los Angeles can say goodbye to the El Healtho clinic. A recovery center for the most severe cases of alcoholism in the state--even if no one ever does quite seem to get dry there--El Healtho has been the bane of Dr. Murphy's existence ever since he started running it. But now that its doors are about to close forever, Dr. Murphy finds he'll do anything to keep it open.

Up to and including admitting Humphrey Van Twyne III, a patient with an extremely violent past whose wealthy family has the means to keep El Healtho open for business. Sure, the man isn'texactlyan alcoholic. And yes, what he really needs is to be under the care of the surgeons who performed the lobotomy that's rendered Van Twyne all but a vegetable. But the money's good--until the rag-tag group of ne'er-do-wells at El Healtho begin to wreak havoc with Dr. Murphy's plans, and suddenly no one day has ever seemed so long.

A literary precursor toOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, THE ALCOHOLICS is Thompson like you've never read him before, a pitch-black, mad-cap portrait of deviant behavior that is at once darkly comic, humane and harrowing.
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ISBN-13: 9780316403955
ISBN-10: 0316403954
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Mulholland Books

Notă biografică

Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story toTrue Detectivewhen he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals. Thompson also co-wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick filmsThe KillingandPaths of Glory). Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir includingThe Killer Inside Me(1952),After Dark My Sweet(1955), andThe Grifters(1963).