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The Alienist
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Random House (1994-03-15)
ISBN: 0679417796
EAN: 9780679417798
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Hardcover: 496 pages
Edition: 1st
Release Date: 1994-03-15
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.
The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over.
Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.
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Customer Reviews
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highly recommend!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-11-29
DR kreizler, and john moore are classic characters! This book was very well written and spoken.Anyone who is into any kind of suspense novels should definatly read this.This book the alienist is a reading of a lifetime.There are many well historic facts about Manhatten New york in this thrilling tail.I have not even come to the conclusion yet of how the story unfolds at the end ,but I am antisapating a very great end and conclusion to this great story.....
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A superb story and excellent insight into life in 1800 New York
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-11-11
A great read. A page turner. Characters are alive. Relationships are all too real. Setting is most interesting.
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Awesome book
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-11-02
I just read it and thought it was great!!! There is so much suspense it really defines a page turner. It's a very interesting book set at great time period. It makes you think and keeps you involved from start to finsh. I could only put the book down to go to work. Its a quick read and my edition had over 400 pages. Great book, buy it, worth it.
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The Alienist
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-11-01
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Very prompt, arrived very quickly. Advertised as nearly new, but it was very marked & quite grotty. However price cheap enough & I was glad to get hold of this book.
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Another no
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-09-20
I agree with "Engish Teacher"( I am one) that this story is flat and wordy.
I was attracted by the hisory and the period. What a let down!
Ugh! Life is too short for such lifeless writing. I'm sure it will be a fine movie.
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