Thanatos syndrome
by:
Walker Percy (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780233981437 (0233981438)
Publish date: January 1st 1987
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pages no: 372
Edition language: English
I envy Percy's way with character -- and his willingness to give as many details to the minor characters as to his major actors. Once you start out with that depth of character and setting, you have to carry it through; so much time and care! Not the tightest plot for a thriller, but the pacing and ...
Marketed as a thriller, Thanatos Syndrome is more of a philosophical novel with thriller elements. A disgraced psychologist just out of prison returns to his rural Louisiana hometown to find the locals have been dosed with mood altering drugs in the water supply. Percy addresses the darkside of th...
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