| Author: | Dirk Wittenborn | ISBN: | 9781101081952 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group | Publication: | June 30, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Dirk Wittenborn |
| ISBN: | 9781101081952 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication: | June 30, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Language: | English |
An honest, insightful , and ruefully funny look at the fate of one American family vis-à-vis the rise of modern psychopharmacology, Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family is nothing less than a contemporary epic. The novel follows William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in the early 1950s, who has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness to those who ingest it and fame and fortune to the man who can synthesize it. But when a brilliant and troubled research subject commits murder, the consequences will haunt Friedrich and his family for years to come.
An honest, insightful , and ruefully funny look at the fate of one American family vis-à-vis the rise of modern psychopharmacology, Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family is nothing less than a contemporary epic. The novel follows William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in the early 1950s, who has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness to those who ingest it and fame and fortune to the man who can synthesize it. But when a brilliant and troubled research subject commits murder, the consequences will haunt Friedrich and his family for years to come.
