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Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family

A Novel

By Dirk Wittenborn

By Dirk Wittenborn

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Jun 30, 2009 | ISBN 9781101081952

Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family by Dirk Wittenborn
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Jun 30, 2009 | ISBN 9781101081952

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About Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family

An honest, insightful , and ruefully funny look at the fate of one American family vis-à-vis the rise of modern psychopharmacology, Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family is nothing less than a contemporary epic. The novel follows William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in the early 1950s, who has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness to those who ingest it and fame and fortune to the man who can synthesize it. But when a brilliant and troubled research subject commits murder, the consequences will haunt Friedrich and his family for years to come.

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About Dirk Wittenborn

Dirk Wittenborn is a novelist and screenwriter whose books have been published in more than a dozen countries. He is the Emmy-nominated producer of the HBO documentary Born Rich and the coauthor and coproducer of The Lucky Ones, a feature film about American… More about Dirk Wittenborn

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction

Ebook | $6.99
Published by Penguin Books
Jun 30, 2009 | 416 Pages | ISBN 9781101081952

Praise

“A smart, eccentric coming-of-age story about an entire culture’s maturation process.”
-Janet Maslin, The New York Times

” A rattling good tale . . . Wittenborn describes the mind of a cracked genius with great gusto and inventiveness . . . [Pharmakon‘s] pleasures are many.”
–The New York Times Book Review

“Epically entertaining.”
–Vogue

” John Irving is a benevolent influence on Wittenborn’s work.”
–The Times Literary Supplement

“No one who has ever been part of a family can fail to feel pangs of recognition.”
-Jay McInerney

“A fascinating portrait of a family living on the edge.”
-Richard Price

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