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Title: Patient X
Author: David Peace
ISBN: 9780525564119
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 336
Publisher Description: In these twelve interconnected tales, David Peace--acclaimed author of the <i>Red Riding Quartet, Occupied City, </i>and <i>Tokyo Year Zero</i>--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, <i>Patient X</i> 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 <i>Patient X</i> 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: 9780525564119
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 336
Publisher Description: In these twelve interconnected tales, David Peace--acclaimed author of the <i>Red Riding Quartet, Occupied City, </i>and <i>Tokyo Year Zero</i>--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, <i>Patient X</i> 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 <i>Patient X</i> 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.
