Pharmakon
by Dirk Wittenborn
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Inventing a drug that appears to have happiness-inducing qualities, a mid-twentieth-century Yale professor is launched into fame before his experiments go awry and a research subject commits murder.Tags
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A story whose ending cannot quite live up to the promise the great beginning makes.
Well written, with brilliant characters; the story just needed to be a little fuller in the last 1/3 of the book.
Well written, with brilliant characters; the story just needed to be a little fuller in the last 1/3 of the book.
Pharmakon is an intricate novel of good intentions gone wrong. William Friedrich is blinded by the possible granduer of a succesful depression drug when he allows the sucidal Casper Gedsic to join the drug trials. Friedrich's ambition coupled with Gedsic's insanity leads to the down fall of both men and Friedrich's family. Wittenborn's novel paints how a drug test in the 1950s haunts the Friedrich family for the following forty years.
Really well done. Effortless. Ending a bit week
In the endi I thought this book wandered too much as if it lost its way
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- Farmakon
- Original title
- Pharmakon
- Original publication date
- 2009
- People/Characters
- Casper Gedsic; William Friedrich; Bunny Winton; Zach Friedrich
- Important places*
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Dedication
- For Kirsten and Lilo
In memory of J.R. Wittenborn, PhD - First words
- I was born because a man came to kill my father. If he hadn't showed up with a gun in his pocket and bad thoughts in his head, I wouldn't exist, much less have a story to tell.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Denied the reassurance that he could still weep, Friedrich wondered if there might be a way to prescribe tears.
- Blurbers*
- McInerney, Jay; Moore, Susanna; Ellis, Bret Easton
- Disambiguation notice*
- original title: Pharmakon
*Some information comes from Common Knowledge in other languages. Click "Edit" for more information.
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- Reviews
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- Rating
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- Languages
- Dutch, English, French, Turkish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 14
- ASINs
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