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Patient X

By David Peace

Patient X Essays & Short Stories

Patient X

By David Peace

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Description
In these twelve interconnected tales, David Peace-acclaimed author of the Red Riding Quartet, Occupied City, and Tokyo Year Zero-weaves fact and fiction as he takes up the brief but fiercely lived life of the early-twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Unique and offbeat, Patient X delves into Akutagawa's rich and complicated private life: his fears and battles with mental illness; his complex reaction to the Westernization of Japan; his exacting creative process; and his suicide, weaving these facets into a hauntingly evocative portrait. But Patient X is more than a paean to one remarkable writer: it is also an incandescent exploration of the act and obsession of writing itself, and of the role of the artist in times that darkly mirror our own.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2019-08-20
Publication Date:
2019-08-20
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
052556411X
ISBN13:
9780525564119
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
421 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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