Description
Title: Patient X
Author: David Peace
ISBN: 9780525564119
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 336
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher : In these twelve interconnected tales, David Peace–acclaimed author of the Red Riding Quartet, Occupied City, and Tokyo Year Zero–weaves fact and fiction as he takes up the brief but fiercely lived life of the early-twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Unique and offbeat, Patient X delves into Akutagawa’s rich and complicated private life: his fears and battles with mental illness; his complex reaction to the Westernization of Japan; his exacting creative process; and his suicide, weaving these facets into a hauntingly evocative portrait. But Patient X is more than a paean to one remarkable writer: it is also an incandescent exploration of the act and obsession of writing itself, and of the role of the artist in times that darkly mirror our own.
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