Patient X

✍ Scribed by David Peace

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Random House Inc
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The acclaimed author of Occupied City , Tokyo Year Zero , and the Red Riding Quartet now gives us a stunning work of fiction in twelve connected tales that take up the strange, brief life of the brilliant twentieth-century Japanese writer, Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) whose short story, "In the Grove" served as an inspiration for Kurosawa's famous film Rash ōmon; and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own obsession with Akutagawa, David Peace delves into the known facts and events of the writer's life and inner world--birth to a mother who was mentally ill and a father who died shortly thereafter; his own battles with mental illness; his complicated reaction to the beginnings of...