Death of the Great Man av Peter D. Kramer

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<B>In a novel that’s part comic mystery, part political satire, and part case vignette, a psychiatrist reviews his involvement with a narcissistic national leader who has turned up dead on the consulting room couch.</B><BR><BR>When Peter D. Kramer wrote about his work with psychiatric patients in books like <I>Listening to Prozac</I> and <I>Should You Leave?</I>, Joyce Carol Oates said, “To read his prose on virtually any subject is to be provoked, enthralled, illuminated.” When Kramer switched to fiction, <I>Publishers Weekly</I> wrote, “The depth, quality, and ambition of Kramer’s prose will surprise those expecting a superficial crossover effort.”<BR><BR>In his new novel, <I>Death of the Great Man</I>, Kramer uses those literary skills to introduce readers to an unforgettable character, Henry Farber, a well-meaning psychiatrist forced into hiding when the nation’s chief executive—a narcissistic autocrat in his disastrous second term&#8