The Alcoholics
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co.
Published: December 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780887390197
Subjects: Mystery & Detective - General; Detective and mystery stories; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
Description: Dr. Peter S. Murphy runs a clinic to cure alcoholics. But his charges believe that the only thing that will fix them is another drink. To this bitter struggle of wills, add an orderly who doubles as a quack practitioner, a nurse who is both alluring and ingeniously sadistic, and a misplaced patient whose main problem is his lack of a frontal lobe, and the result is one of Jim Thompson's most harrowingly funny yet deeply sympathetic novels.