Dr. Peter S. Murphy needs fifteen thousand dollars by the end of
the day, or the city of Los Angeles can say goodbye to the El
Healtho clinic. A recovery center for the most severe cases of
alcoholism in the state--even if no one ever does quite seem to get
dry there--El Healtho has been the bane of Dr. Murphy's existence
ever since he started running it. But now that its doors are about
to close forever, Dr. Murphy finds he'll do anything to keep it
open.
Up to and including admitting Humphrey Van Twyne III, a patient
with an extremely violent past whose wealthy family has the means
to keep El Healtho open for business. Sure, the man isn't "exactly"
an alcoholic. And yes, what he really needs is to be under the care
of the surgeons who performed the lobotomy that's rendered Van
Twyne all but a vegetable. But the money's good--until the rag-tag
group of ne'er-do-wells at El Healtho begin to wreak havoc with Dr.
Murphy's plans, and suddenly no one day has ever seemed so long.
A literary precursor to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," THE
ALCOHOLICS is Thompson like you've never read him before, a
pitch-black, mad-cap portrait of deviant behavior that is at once
darkly comic, humane and harrowing.
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