Doctor Sleep - Softcover

Bell, Madison Smartt

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ISBN 10: 0140165606 ISBN 13: 9780140165609

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1992

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When little girls become the victims of a serial killer's rage, an insomniac's gifts come violently into play in this riveting novel by one of today's greatest writers--author of Barking Man and Other Stories and Waiting for the End of the World.

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From Library Journal:

Adrian Strother, a young American living in London, is the titular Doctor Sleep of this new novel by the author of Waiting for the End of the World ( LJ 9/15/90). A hypnotherapist by trade, Adrian fancies himself a necromancer as well, spending his off-hours in the British Museum studying the works of Giordano Bruno. He is possessed by the desire to learn the esoteric secrets by which he can attain godlike powers, an obsession which has, ironically, left him sleepless. As the novel opens, his lover Clara moves out just as two friends from his drug-addicted years in New York appear on the scene. Adrian's attempts to reconcile past and present lead to a series of waking nightmares involving punks, a drug lord, and shadowy operatives of Scotland Yard. In the end, he realizes his Faustian quest--only to find the result far different than he imagined. Part thriller, part psychological study, this is a notable addition to Bell's rapidly growing body of work. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/90.
- Law rence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.
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From Publishers Weekly:

While its plot occasionally gets out of hand, this idiosyncratic novel of a New York druggie who has moved to London and become a hypnotist, a part-time investigator and a full-time imsomniac proves psychologically convincing.
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