The Thanatos Syndrome: A Novel

The Thanatos Syndrome: A Novel

by Walker Percy
The Thanatos Syndrome: A Novel

The Thanatos Syndrome: A Novel

by Walker Percy

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Overview

Returning home to the small Louisiana parish where he had praticed psychiatry, Dr. Tom More quickly notices something strange occuring with the townfolk, a loss of inhibitions. Behind this mystery is a dangerous plot drug the local water supply, and a discovery that takes More into the underside of the American search for happiness.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312243326
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 09/04/1999
Edition description: REV
Pages: 384
Sales rank: 1,086,991
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Walker Percy is the author of over ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including the bestsellers The Moviegoer and The Thanatos Syndrome. He was awarded numerous prizes during his lifetime, including the National Book Award, and is considered to be one of the greatest American writers of our time. He died in 1990.

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