Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa by Peace, David

Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525564119)

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Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa by Peace, David

Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

$17.00
Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa by Peace, David

Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: David Peace
ISBN-10: 052556411X
ISBN-13: 9780525564119
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2019
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90d
By David Peace
By David Peace
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David Peace--named in 2003 one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists--was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He is the author of the Red Riding Quartet (Nineteen Seventy-Four, Nineteen Seventy-Seven, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty-Three); GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; The Damned Utd and Red or Dead, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. The final part of his Tokyo Trilogy--to follow Tokyo Year Zero and Occupied City--will appear after Patient X, his tenth novel. He lives in Tokyo.

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