| The Thanatos Syndrome Contributor(s): Percy, Walker (Author) |
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ISBN: 1504756789 ISBN-13: 9781504756785 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: January 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1990's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Dr. Tom More (of Love in the Ruins) is released on parole from state prison, he returns to Feliciana, Louisiana, the parish where he was born and bred and where he practiced psychiatry before his arrest. Upon arriving, he notices something strange in almost everyone around him: unusual sexual behavior in women patients, a bizarre loss of inhibition, a lack of complexity in speech--even his own wife's extraordinary success at bridge tournaments, during which her mind seems to function like a computer. With the ingenious help of his attractive cousin, Dr. Lucy Lipscomb, More begins to uncover a criminal experiment to "improve" people's behavior by drugging the local water supply. But beyond this scheme are activities so sinister that even Tom More wouldn't believe them if he hadn't witnessed them with his own eyes. |
Contributor Bio(s): Percy, Walker: - Walker Percy (1916-1990) went to medical school and interned at Bellevue, intending to be a psychiatrist. After a bout with tuberculosis, he married and converted to Catholicism. He became a writer and his first novel, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award and has never been out of print. He lived with his wife in Covington, Louisiana, where they operated a bookstore until his death. |