"Stephen Leeds, AKA "Legion," is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. As the new story begins, Leeds and his "aspe…
"Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life-which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right …
A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.
A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.
The author questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science fiction writer's struggle to find peace and sanity in the world.
"The author questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science fiction writer's struggle to find peace and sanity in the world."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, poli…
by Vonnegut, Kurt, Giusti, Bob
fromA Delta book
Aging science fiction writer Kilgore Trout finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
El Dr. Frederick Starks, un psicoanalista de Nueva York al borde de unas vacaciones muy necesarias, se ve inmerso en un juego mortal de venganza donde un misterioso torturador espera en la oscuridad para destruirlo.
Clássico da literatura brasileira, este texto de Machado de Assis continua sendo, 130 anos depois de sua publicação original, uma das mais devastadoras observações sobre a insanidade a que pode chegar a ciência. Tão arrebatador quanto deleitante, O alienista é uma dessas joias d…
An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.
Joanne McMullen's fears for her sister's sanity have brought her to remote King's Island, Maine. Mary's grief over the loss of her child is threatening to send her over the edge and her insistence that she has heard an eerie, childlike wailing in the woods fuels Joanne's anxiety…
