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Returning home to the small Louisiana parish where he had praticed psychiatry, Dr. Tom More quickly notices something strange occuring with the townfolk, a loss of inhibitions. Behind this mystery is a dangerous plot drug the local water supply, and a discovery that takes More into the underside of the American search for happiness.
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"Shimmers with intelligence and verve...THE THANATOS SYNDROME is highbrow hilarity all the more discerning for distinguishing its tears behind lots of laughs." --Newsday
"What a pleasure it is to read a real novel ... The Thanatos Syndrome has the ambition and purposefulness to take on the world, to wrestle with its shortcomings, and to celebrate its glories."
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"He is a dazzlingly gifted novelist...Percy stages a lively medical mystery...that no serious reader will want to miss."
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- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0312243324
- ISBN 13 9780312243326
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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