Doctor Sleep - Softcover

Bell, Madison Smartt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802140165 ISBN 13: 9780802140166

Publisher: Grove Press, 2003

Synopsis

Madison Smartt Bell is one of the most versatile and gifted authors of his generation, a literary stylist with few peers. Doctor Sleep, one of his best novels, is a taut and satisfying psychological thriller planned to be released as a major motion picture under the title Hypnotic. Adrian Strother is a hypnotherapist who, paradoxically, can't get to sleep. He plies his trade in a depressed section of London, doing the occasional job for Scotland Yard, which brings him into contact with an unsavory drug trafficker. As little girls become the target of a serial killer, Adrian treads the line between tortured wakefulness and surreal sleep, and the gifts of his insomnia are called upon to unlock the secrets of a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality. Part spiritual pilgrimage, part thriller, Doctor Sleep is witty, menacing, and deeply satisfying, a bravura performance by one of today's finest writers.

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Doctor Sleep A Scotland Yard searches for a ritualistic serial killer, an insomniac American hypnotherapist is enlisted to use his newly-found telekinetic powers to communicate with a young mute girl. Now a major motion picture titled "Hypnosis, " with Goran Visnjic of "ER, " set for a spring 2003 release. Full description

Review:

"This man wirtes the way de Sica filmed. His prose is vivid without being showy, witty without being self-satisfied, economical without being minimalist. The camera disappears."

"For my money, nobody else writing today does places--this time London--the grit and the grunge, the full feel of them, like Madison Smartt Bell."

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0802140165
• ISBN 13: 9780802140166
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304