In these twelve interconnected tales, David Peace-acclaimed author of the Red Riding Quartet, Occupied City, and Tokyo Year Zero-weaves fact and fiction as he takes up the brief but fiercely lived life of the early-twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Unique and offbeat, Patient X delves into Akutagawa's rich and complicated private life: his fears and battles with mental illness; his complex reaction to the Westernization of Japan; his exacting creative process; and his suicide, weaving these facets into a hauntingly evocative portrait.
But Patient X is more than a paean to one remarkable writer: it is also an incandescent exploration of the act and obsession of writing itself, and of the role of the artist in times that darkly mirror our own.
| ISBN: | 9780525564119 |
| Publication date: | 20th August 2019 |
| Author: | David Peace |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Genres: |
General Fiction Shorter Reads Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction |
In these twelve interconnected tales, David Peace-acclaimed author of the Red Riding Quartet, Occupied City, and Tokyo Year Zero-weaves fact and fiction as he takes up the brief but fiercely lived life of the early-twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Unique and offbeat, Patient X delves into Akutagawa's rich and complicated private life: his fears and battles with mental illness; his complex reaction to the Westernization of Japan; his exacting creative process; and his suicide, weaving these facets into a hauntingly evocative portrait.
Patient X features in the following genres: General Fiction, Shorter Reads, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction
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Patient X was written by David Peace and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Patient X has 336 pages