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PHARMAKON by Dirk Wittenborn - BOOK - ADVANCE READING COPYAn epic novel about family secrets and the consequences of ambition
William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in
1952, has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness—and that can
make him a famous man. When his experiment goes awry, and a research
subject commits murder, the consequences will haunt him and his family
forever.
Pharmakon is an epic novel, an invocation of
the quest for bliss, for love, for family, and all of the betrayals
that follow. We follow the Friedrichs from the well-ordered suburban
life of postwar America through the chaos and freedom of the
counterculture, into the drug-fueled, media-crazed eighties and beyond.
In William Friedrich, Wittenborn has defined the archetypal American
patriarch: a miracle worker and source of strength to everyone except
those he loves the most. Pharmakon is also a layered,
thoughtful search behind the veil of psychopharmacology as we know it
today—a tale not only of the consequences of research, but also of the
complex personalities, appetites, and struggles that created it.
Honest, insightful, and ruefully funny, Pharmakon
captures formative moments of the twentieth century, the quirks of an
American family, and will enthrall fans of the novels of John Irving.
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