Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family: A Novel
An honest, insightful , and ruefully funny look at the fate of one American family vis-?-vis the rise of modern psychopharmacology, Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family is nothing less than a contemporary epic. The novel follows William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale...
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An honest, insightful , and ruefully funny look at the fate of one American family vis-?-vis the rise of modern psychopharmacology, Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family is nothing less than a contemporary epic. The novel follows William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in the early 1950s, who has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness to those who ingest it and fame and fortune to the man who can synthesize it. But when a brilliant and troubled research subject commits murder, the consequences will haunt Friedrich and his family for years to come.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143115670 (0143115677)
Publish date: June 30th 2009
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
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