The Thanatos Syndrome
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The Thanatos Syndrome
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Narrated by:
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David HIlder
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Written by:
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Walker Percy
When Dr. Tom More (of Love in the Ruins) is released on parole from state prison, he returns to Feliciana, Louisiana, the parish where he was born and bred and where he practiced psychiatry before his arrest. Upon arriving, he notices something strange in almost everyone around him: unusual sexual behavior in women patients, a bizarre loss of inhibition, a lack of complexity in speech—even his own wife's extraordinary success at bridge tournaments, during which her mind seems to function like a computer.
With the ingenious help of his attractive cousin, Dr. Lucy Lipscomb, More begins to uncover a criminal experiment to "improve" people's behavior by drugging the local water supply. But beyond this scheme are activities so sinister that even Tom More wouldn't believe them if he hadn't witnessed them with his own eyes.
©1987 Walker Percy (P)1995 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Critic Reviews
“Spins along at a brisk thriller pace, laced with escapes and chase scenes and risky, ingenious detective work.”
(Gail Godwin, New York Times Book Review)“What a pleasure it is to read a real novel…The Thanatos Syndrome has the ambition and purposefulness to take on the world, to wrestle with its shortcomings, and to celebrate its glories.”
(Washington Post Book World)“He is a dazzlingly gifted novelist…Percy stages a lively medical mystery…that no serious reader will want to miss.”
(USA Today)“Shimmers with intelligence and verve…The Thanatos Syndrome is highbrow hilarity all the more discerning for distinguishing its tears behind lots of laughs.”
(Newsday )“There is ample evidence of Percy’s brilliance in The Thanatos Syndrome—the droll Dixie anthropology, the pitch-perfect dialogue, the sheer intelligence everywhere on the page…It is splendidly, uproariously catholic, as well.”
(Atlantic Monthly)“As usual, Percy’s ear for language—especially the layers of meaning in even the most casual conversation—is superb.”
(Publishers Weekly)“In crisp, masterful prose Percy delivers a relentlessly compelling tale.”
(Library Journal)