Doctor Sleep (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802140166)

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.

Author: Madison Smartt Bell
ISBN-10: 0802140165
ISBN-13: 9780802140166
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2003
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.60w x 0.79d