Prot acaba de entrar como paciente en una de las instituciones para enfermos mentales de la ciudad de Nueva York. Su presencia en el centro está plenamente justificada: Prot afirma ser un alienígena proveniente del planeta K-Pax, un planeta donde reina la armonía.Es su único rasgo peculiar, puesto q
K-Pax
✍ Scribed by Dr. Gene Brewer
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press;St. Martin's Paperbacks
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Edition
- St. Martin's Paperbacks ed. Jan. 2001
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0312977026
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Psychiatrist Gene Brewer doesn't have a diagnosis for the mysterious new patient who calls himself "prot" (rhymes with goat). But this strange and likeable man cannot be--as he claims--from the planet K-PAX.
Or can he? Prot knows facts about space that are confounding the experts. He is soon revealing Dr. Brewer's own deepest pains and most sublime longings. And his tales of K-PAX have other patients competing to go along with him when he heads "home". Now the doctor is racing the clock to find prot's true identity before he losses a man whose "madness" might just save them all. . .
Published in a dozens countries with movie rights sold to the producer of Field of Dreams , K-PAX has touched the hearts and expanded the horizons of readers around the world. It promises to join Robert Heinlein's classic Stranger in a Strange Land as a moving, thought-provoking masterpiece of modern-day fiction.
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