K-Pax
by Dr. Gene Brewer
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Author: Dr. Gene BrewerEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-01-15
ISBN: 0312977026
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Book Review: Olicer Sacks in space
Summary: 3 Stars
I read K-Pax after seeing the film. It's a pretty good mix of Oliver Sacks style psychoanalysis and sci-fi. It maintains the 'what-if' basis of storyline for much of the book, but towards the end I feld a lot of the suspense had vanished.
The film adds a few scenes from K-Pax II, and is, to be honest, a good version of the book. In fact, the book doesn't really offer anything extra over the film, which is a shame.
A word of warning though - the books go downhill considerably after this one.
Summary of K-Pax
His name is Prot. Nobody knows where he's from. And everyone wants to go there.Psychiatrist Gene Brewer doesn't have a diagnosis for the mysterious new patient who calls himself "prot" (rhymes with goat).But this strange and likeable man cannot be-as he claims-from the planet K-PAX.Or can he?Prot knows facts about space that are confounding the experts.He is soon revealing Dr. Brewer's own deepest pains and most sublime longings.And his tales of K-PAX have other patients competing to go along with him when he heads "home."Now the doctor is racing the clock to find prot's true identity before he loses a man whose "madness" might just save them all...Published in a dozen countries with movie rights sold to the producer of Field of Dreams, K-PAX has touched the hearts and expanded the horizons of readers around the world.It promises to join Robert Heinlein's classic Stranger in a Strange Land as a moving, thought-provoking masterpiece of modern-day fiction.AUTHORBIO: Gene Brewer was born and raised in Muncie, Indiana, and educated at DePauw University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.Before becoming a novelist, he studied DNA replication and cell division at several major research institutions.Dr. Brewer lives in New York City with his wife and Dalmatian.General Books
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