The Alcoholics
By: Jim Thompson.
Edition: Black Lizard edition
Series: Vintage Crime
Publisher: Vintage Books; Vintage
Published: 4 January 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780679733133
Subjects: Alcoholics -- Fiction.
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.
Notes: "Originally published in slightly different form by Lion in 1953"--T.p. verso.