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portada La Historia del Loco (in Spanish)
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2022
Language
Spanish
Pages
544
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.1 x 12.4 x 4.1 cm
Weight
0.41 kg.
ISBN13
9786073803038
Edition No.
2022
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La Historia del Loco (in Spanish)

John Katzenbach (Author) · B De Bolsillo · Paperback

La Historia del Loco (in Spanish) - Katzenbach John

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Synopsis "La Historia del Loco (in Spanish)"

John Katzenbach demuestra su destreza para provocar la tensión en el lector, tal como hiciera en El psicoanalista. Francis Petrel tenía poco más de veinte años cuando su familia lo recluyó en el psiquiátrico tras una conducta imprevisible que culminó en una crisis. Pero un reencuentro en los terrenos de la clausurada institución remueve algo profundo en la mente agitada de Francis: unos recuerdos sombríos, que él creía haber enterrado, sobre los truculentos hechos que condujeron al cierre del Western State Hospital, y el asesinato sin resolver de una joven enfermera, cuyo cadáver mutilado fue encontrado una noche después de que se apagaran las luces. La policia sospecho de un paciente, pero solo ahora, con la reaparicion del asesino, se conocera la respuesta. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION It's been twenty years since Western State Hospital was closed down and the last of its inmates reintegrated into society. Francis Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to the asylum, after his erratic behavior culminated in a terrifying outburst. Now middle-aged, he leads an aimless, solitary life housed in a cheap apartment, periodically tended to by his sisters, and perpetually medicated to quiet the chorus of voices in his head. But a reunion on the grounds of the shuttered institution stirs something deep in Francis's troubled mind: dark memories he thought he had laid to rest, about the grisly events that led to Western State Hospital's demise. It begins in 1979, when twenty-one-year-old Petrel descends into the state-run purgatory of an overcrowded, understaffed Massachusetts mental hospital. Surrounded by inmates roaming the halls like drugged zombies and raving behind locked doors, well-meaning orderlies, jaded nurses, and patronizing doctors, Francis finds friendship with a motley assortment of fellow patients: a would-be Napoleon, a wise ex-firefighter, and a man obsessed with battling imagined devils. But there's nothing imaginary about the young nurse found sexually assaulted and brutally murdered late one night after lights-out. The police suspect an inmate, while patients whisper about visions of a white-shrouded "angel." But the striking and mysterious prosecuting attorney who arrives to investigate has her own chilling theory--about the grim, telltale "signature" left on the victim's body, a string of unsolved sex killings, and a very real devil who, by chance or design, has come to turn a madhouse into a slaughterhouse. Now, with the past creeping back to haunt his thoughts, and nothing but a pencil and the bare walls of his bleak apartment, Francis surrenders to the overwhelming need to tell the story of those nightmarish days. But because the crime was never solved, it's a story doomed to remain unfinished. Until, like Francis's long-buried recollections, the killer resurfaces . . . with a vengeance. A tour de force narrative journey through the eerily unpredictable mind of an utterly unusual hero, The Madman's Tale will keep even the most astute thriller reader uncertain, unnerved, and unable to resist the tantalizing twists and turns of this fiendishly suspenseful shadow show.
John Katzenbach
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Es uno de los autores más importantes de novela negra en el mundo; muchas de sus novelas han sido adaptadas al cine y a la televisión. Posee también una larga trayectoria como periodista en temas judiciales. Después del éxito de su novela El psicoanalista (más de un millón y medio de ejemplares vendidos), su secuela, Jaque al psicoanalista, va por el mismo camino con más 150.000 ejemplares vendidos desde su publicación.
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Diana Lucía Castañeda CáceresWednesday, November 02, 2022
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Me encanta su escritura

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Iván Eduardo Rico CastellanosSunday, April 28, 2024

La Novela la Historia del loco del Autor y Escrtitor Norte Americano John Katzetnbach, es interesante cuantan la historia de Francis Petrel, lo que vivio a la edad de 20 años hospitalizado en una clinica de reposo. lo que sufrían los demas pacientes hospitalizado sufrían de delirios y demas dolencias y efermedades mentales es una gran novela la disfruta, el lector desde el inicio y deselance de esta gran historia del loco.

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