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The Patient

By Jasper Dewitt

The Patient Dark Fantasy

The Patient

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"One of the most frightening stories I have ever read in my entire life." —RYAN REYNOLDS The Silent Patient by way of Stephen King: Parker, a young, overconfident psychiatrist new to his job at a mental asylum miscalculates catastrophically when he undertakes curing a mysterious and profoundly dangerous patient. In a series of online posts that form a chilling epistolary novel, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case—a forty-year-old man who was originally admitted to the hospital at age six. This patient has no known diagnosis. His symptoms seem to evolve over time. Every person who has attempted to treat him has been driven to madness or suicide, a case study in medical horror. Desperate and fearful, the hospital's directors keep him strictly confined and allow minimal contact with staff for their own safety, convinced that releasing him would unleash catastrophe upon the outside world. Parker, brilliant and overconfident, takes it upon himself to discover what ails this patient and finally cure him. But from his first encounter with the mysterious patient, things spiral out of control and, facing a possibility beyond his wildest imaginings, Parker is forced to question everything he thought he knew. Fans of Sarah Pinborough's Behind Her Eyes and Paul Tremblay's The Cabin at the End of the World will be riveted by Jasper DeWitt's astonishing debut.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2021-07-06
Publication Date:
2021-07-06
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0358561825
ISBN13:
9780358561828
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
168 g
Height:
125 cm
Width:
188 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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