Doctor Sleep

A Scotland Yard searches for a ritualistic serial killer, an insomniac American hypnotherapist is enlisted to use his newly-found telekinetic powers to communicate with a young mute girl. Now a major motion picture titled "Hypnosis, " with Goran Visnjic of "ER, " set for a spring 2003 release.

Summary

Madison Smartt Bell is one of the most versatile and gifted authors of his generation, a literary stylist with few peers. Doctor Sleep, one of his best novels, is a taut and satisfying psychological thriller planned to be released as a major motion picture under the title Hypnotic. Adrian Strother is a hypnotherapist who, paradoxically, can't get to sleep. He plies his trade in a depressed section of London, doing the occasional job for Scotland Yard, which brings him into contact with an unsavory drug trafficker. As little girls become the target of a serial killer, Adrian treads the line between tortured wakefulness and surreal sleep, and the gifts of his insomnia are called upon to unlock the secrets of a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality. Part spiritual pilgrimage, part thriller, Doctor Sleep is witty, menacing, and deeply satisfying, a bravura performance by one of today's finest writers.

Product details

• Authors: Madison Smartt Bell, Bell Madison Smartt
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2003
• EAN: 9780802140166
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4016-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 209 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 354 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, London, Greater London, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Media Tie-In, Fiction: general & literary, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Relating to adulthood, CULTURAL HERITAGE / British