The Alcoholics
Language: English
20th Century American Novel And Short Story Alcoholics Alcoholics - Fiction Black humor (Literature) Detective Detective and Mystery Stories Fiction Fiction - Mystery General General & Literary Fiction Hard-Boiled Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Modern fiction Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - General Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled Romance Suspense
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: Aug 15, 1993
Description:
SUMMARY: Dr. Peter S. Murphy runs a clinic to cure alcoholics. But his charges believe that the only thing that will fix them is another drink. To this bitter struggle of wills, add an orderly who doubles as a quack practitioner, a nurse who is both alluring and ingeniously sadistic, and a misplaced patient whose main problem is his lack of a frontal lobe, and the result is one of Jim Thompson's most harrowingly funny yet deeply sympathetic novels.