Invidicum - Brodsky, Michael
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Twenty years in the making, Michael Brodsky's opus, Invidicum, is a sprawling satirical novel about an experimental drug for "Envy Disease" and those involved in its clinical trials: participants, drug developers, psychiatrists, technicians, hangers-on, advertisers, etc. Brodsky states, "I think this book is my 'richest.' It did start out . . . propelled by a preposterous desire to write something more accessible-to achieve a breakthrough."

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Produktbeschreibung
Twenty years in the making, Michael Brodsky's opus, Invidicum, is a sprawling satirical novel about an experimental drug for "Envy Disease" and those involved in its clinical trials: participants, drug developers, psychiatrists, technicians, hangers-on, advertisers, etc. Brodsky states, "I think this book is my 'richest.' It did start out . . . propelled by a preposterous desire to write something more accessible-to achieve a breakthrough."
Autorenporträt
Michael Brodsky is the author of fourteen published works of fiction. They include the novels Detour (1977, revised 2003) for which he received the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Citation from PEN, Circuits (1985), Xman (1987), Dyad (1989) and Lurianics (2013) and the collections Project and Other Short Pieces (1982), X in Paris (1988), Southernmost and Other Stories (1996) and Limit Point (2007). Born in New York on August 2, 1948, he graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University, in 1969 and went on to attend Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland for two years before leaving to devote himself to literature. Apart from some teaching, he has worked for most of his life as a technical editor.A number of his plays, including Terrible Sunlight (1980), Dose Center (1990) and Six Scenes: A Barracks Brawl (1994), were performed in the heyday of off-off Broadway innovation. He is currently writing another novel, The Bull by the Horns, whose focus is the perils and triumphs of an accidental whistleblower.