Pharmakon Or The Story Of A Happy Family
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Pharmakon Or The Story Of A Happy Family
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Author : Dirk Wittenborn
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Pharmakon Or The Story Of A Happy Family written by Dirk Wittenborn and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Fiction categories.
An honest, insightful , and ruefully funny look at the fate of one American family vis-à-vis the rise of modern psychopharmacology, Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family is nothing less than a contemporary epic. The novel follows William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in the early 1950s, who has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness to those who ingest it and fame and fortune to the man who can synthesize it. But when a brilliant and troubled research subject commits murder, the consequences will haunt Friedrich and his family for years to come.
Representations Of Science In Twenty First Century Fiction
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Author : Nina Engelhardt
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-06-28
Representations Of Science In Twenty First Century Fiction written by Nina Engelhardt and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic directions in fictional science narratives in different genres, predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from the late twentieth to the twenty-first centuries, reflect the diversity of representations of science in contemporary fiction, including psychopharmacology and neuropathology, quantum physics and mathematics, biotechnology, genetics, and chemical weaponry. This collection considers how texts engage with science and technology to explore relations between bodies and minds, how such connectivities shape conceptions and narrations of the human, and how the speculative view of science fiction features alongside realist engagements with the Victorian period and modernism. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, contributors offer new insights into narrative engagement with science and its place in life today, in times past, and in times to come.
Pharmakon
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Author : Dirk Wittenborn
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-04-14
Pharmakon written by Dirk Wittenborn and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-14 with Fiction categories.
It is 1950s America and madness is in the air. In a world where the 'cures' for craziness include coma therapy, cyanide treatment and full-frontal lobotomies, Dr. William T. Friedrich, a young and ambitious psychology professor at Yale, stumbles upon a tropical plant that seems to possess the secret ingredient of happiness. In Casper Gedsic, a fiercely intelligent, socially inept, near-suicidal maths student, he seems to have found the perfect guinea pig. But when his experiments goes awry, Casper's thirst for revenge turns murderous and his actions have consequences that will haunt Friedrich and his family forever...
Standard Catalog For Public Libraries
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Author : H.W. Wilson Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Standard Catalog For Public Libraries written by H.W. Wilson Company and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Best books categories.
Includes an abridged edition of 1908 catalog issued under title: English prose fiction ... list of about 800 title.
Queer Writing
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Author : E. Stephens
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-07-16
Queer Writing written by E. Stephens and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-16 with Social Science categories.
Queer Writing provides the first full-length study of homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction. It shows how the theory of writing elaborated in his work provides a new way to understand homosexual literature, not as the inscription of a stable sexual subjectivity but as the mobilization of a perverse dynamic within the text.
Bonita Avenue
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Author : Peter Buwalda
language : en
Publisher: Hogarth
Release Date : 2015-01-13
Bonita Avenue written by Peter Buwalda and has been published by Hogarth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-13 with Fiction categories.
"Dazzling...Critics hailed Buwalda as 'The Dutch answer to Jonathan Franzen', but his brilliance is entirely unique."--The Times (UK) Siem Sigerius is a beloved, brilliant professor of mathematics with a promising future in politics. His family—including a loving wife, two gorgeous, intelligent stepdaughters and a successful future son-in-law—and carefully appointed home in the bucolic countryside complete the portrait of a comfortable, morally upright household. But there are elements of Siem's past that threaten to upend the peace and stability that he has achieved, and when he stumbles upon a deception that’s painfully close to home, things begin to fall apart. A cataclysmic explosion in a fireworks factory, the advent of internet pornography, and the reappearances of a discarded, dangerous son all play a terrible role in the spectacular fragmentation of the Sigerius clan. A riveting portrait of a family in crisis and the ways that even the smallest twists of fate can forever change our lives, Bonita Avenue is an incendiary, unpredictable debut of relationships torn asunder by lies, and minds destroyed by madness.
Son Of Classics And Comics
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Author : George Kovacs
language : en
Publisher: Classical Presences
Release Date : 2016
Son Of Classics And Comics written by George Kovacs and has been published by Classical Presences this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Literary Collections categories.
Wonder Woman. Asterix the Gaul. Watchmen. These popular comics, and many others, use classical sources, narrative patterns, and references to enrich their imaginative worlds and deepen the stories they present. This volume explores that rich interaction. Son of Classics and Comics presents thirteen original studies of representations of the ancient world in the medium of comics. Building on the foundation established by their groundbreaking Classics and Comics (2011), George Kovacs and C. W. Marshall have gathered a wide range of essays with a new, global perspective. Chapters are helpfully grouped to facilitate classroom use, with sections on receptions of Homer, on manga, on Asterix, and on the sense of a classic in the modern world. All Greek and Latin passages are translated. Lavishly illustrated, the volume significantly widens the range of available studies on the reception of the Greek and Roman worlds in comics, and deepens our understanding of comics as a literary medium. Son of Classics and Comics will appeal to students and scholars of classical reception as well as comics fans.
Pictures From Home
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Author : Larry Sultan
language : en
Publisher: Mack
Release Date : 2017
Pictures From Home written by Larry Sultan and has been published by Mack this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Families categories.
First published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultan's pendant to his parents. Sultan returned home to Southern California periodically in the 1980s and the decade-long sequence moves between registers, combining contemporary photographs with film stills from home movies, fragments of conversation, Sultan's own writings and other memorabilia. The result is a narrative collage in which the boundary between the documentary and the staged becomes increasingly ambiguous. Simultaneously the distance usually maintained between the photographer and his subjects also slips in an exchange of dialogue and emotion that is unique to this work. Significantly increasing the page count of the original book, this MACK design of Pictures From Home clarifies the multiplicity of voices - both textual and pictorial - in order to afford a fresh perspective of this seminal body of work -- Provided by the publisher.
Bluets
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Author : Maggie Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-06-01
Bluets written by Maggie Nelson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
**AS SEEN ON BBC2's BETWEEN THE COVERS** A Guardian Book of the Year Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief. Much like Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse, Bluets has passed between lovers in the ecstasy of new love, and been pressed into the hands of the heartbroken. Visceral, learned, and acutely lucid, Bluets is a slim feat of literary innovation and grace, never before published in the UK.
Homicidal Intent
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Author : Vivian Chern
language : en
Publisher: Dell
Release Date : 2008-12-10
Homicidal Intent written by Vivian Chern and has been published by Dell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-10 with Fiction categories.
They told her to peer into the mind of a killer. They didn’t say which one.... It happened in a place of privilege in New York City, when a twelve-year-old boy committed an act of violence that stunned the city and the nation. Now forensic psychiatrist Tamsen Bayn has been hired by her fiancé, who is also a lead prosecutor in the case, to interview the accused boy’s parents and unravel the mysterious causes of an inexplicable crime. But when she does, Tamsen discovers something more shocking than the psychological history of a family and the pain of a deeply troubled boy. Tamsen begins to examine a shadowy connection between this crime and a pattern of violence around the country. Suddenly Tamsen is caught between science and the law, between the man she loves and a truth she must pursue. Inside an explosive mystery that involves genius, greed, hope, and murder, Tamsen may become the most dangerous player of all: the one who knows too much....