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A carregar... Alcoholics (Mulholland Classic) (original 1953; edição 2014)por Jim Thompson (Autor), Doug Dorst (Prefácio)
Informação Sobre a ObraThe Alcoholics por Jim Thompson (1953)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I honestly could not find any redeeming features about this book. I tried. I read through the whole short volume. I didn't like the characters, the story, or its treatment of the main subject - alcoholism. I didn't like its treament of the mentally ill or its treatment of women or an individual who speaks with a lisp. I couldn't tell if the story was supposed to be funny or serious. Perhaps my reaction was because it was a "dated" book - having been written in 1953. To be fair, if the author were alive now, I wouldn't mind seeing him write a more modern version of this story for comparison. The story begins with a doctor (Is he a psychiatrist? I don't really know.) who is director of a small facility for patients who are alcoholics. When the patients get out of control, they are given small amounts of alcohol to drink. What?! The most pressing problem is how the facility, down on money, is to get enough financial backing to survive. Truthfully? I'd have shut this facility, built a new facility in its place and hired new, accountable staff. Hey! It was only a story, though... A bizarre little book, and when you're talking about Thompson that's saying something. Anyone familiar with his work, such as the wonderful "The Killer Inside Me" or "The Grifters" should not expect writing on that level here. What you do get is a down-on-his-luck doctor who means well but is ineffectual at curing alcoholics, a cook who believes in voodoo, an orderly who practices medicine when no one is looking and a sadistic nurse who gets off on torturing the resident lobotomy patient. Oh, and various drunks. It's a fast read and weird. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Dr. Peter S. Murphy needs fifteen thousand dollars by the end of the day, or the city of Los Angeles can say goodbye to the El Healtho clinic. A recovery center for the most severe cases of alcoholism in the state -- even if no one ever does quite seem to get dry there -- El Healtho has been the bane of Dr. Murphy's existence ever since he started running it. But now that its doors are about to close forever, Dr. Murphy finds he'll do anything to keep it open. Up to and including admitting Humphrey Van Twyne III, a patient with an extremely violent past whose wealthy family has the means to keep El Healtho open for business. Sure, the man isn't exactly an alcoholic. And yes, what he really needs is to be under the care of the surgeons who performed the lobotomy that's rendered Van Twyne all but a vegetable. But the money's good -- until the rag-tag group of ne'er-do-wells at El Healtho begin to wreak havoc with Dr. Murphy's plans, and suddenly no one day has ever seemed so long. A literary precursor to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Alcoholics is Thompson like you've never read him before, a pitch-black, mad-cap portrait of deviant behavior that is at once darkly comic, humane and harrowing. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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It is a short novel, and its ending is a cheap, easy victory. ( )