Pharmakon, Or The Story Of A Happy Family: A Novel

by Dirk Wittenborn

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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...

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AuthorDirk Wittenborn

First published2009

Era2000 onward

PublisherPenguin (Non-Classics)

LanguageEnglish

FormatPaperback

ConditionVery good

Reference5757227-very-good

The Story

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.