K-Pax: A Novel

· Sold by St. Martin's Press
4.4
26 reviews
Ebook
256
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About this ebook

Adapted into a major motion picture of the same name starring Kevin Spacey, Gene Brewer's K-PAX has touched the hearts and expanded the horizons of readers around the world--a thought-provoking masterpiece of modern-day fiction.

Psychiatrist Gene Brewer doesn't have a diagnosis for the mysterious new patient who calls himself "prot" (rhymes with goat). But this strange and likeable man cannot be--as he claims--from the planet K-PAX.

Or can he? Prot knows facts about space that are confounding the experts. He is soon revealing Dr. Brewer's own deepest pains and most sublime longings. And his tales of K-PAX have other patients competing to go along with him when he heads "home". Now the doctor is racing the clock to find prot's true identity before he losses a man whose "madness" might just save them all. . .

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4.4
26 reviews
A Google user
August 25, 2011
The book and the movie are really about human potential right here on Earth. The writer, Brewer, is using another planet to stand for what his ideals are for Planet Earth. The main character, Prot, talks about crime and punishment, right and wrong, reproduction (which should be done very carefully), how every adult should be responsible for taking care of children, and how everyone should have the ability to travel freely on this planet, this Earth, to get to know other cultures and people. All of the references to the "other" planet, K-PAX are there to keep the reader's interest. It is science fiction after all.
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Peter Doesburg
July 19, 2014
One of my fave books and movies of all time
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Aquene Baker-Jarvis
August 15, 2018
My FAVORITE book and movie of all time!
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About the author

Gene Brewer is the author of On a Beam of Light and K-Pax.

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