This classic hallucinatory thriller of the 1960s, newly available, is a book charged with sexual obsession and haunted by the sense that all narrative is itself obsessive and violent. The Scorpions is Robert Kelly's early novel about a psychiatrist who begins to believe one of his patient's paranoid inventions and searches for hard evidence in a funny, crazy, sometimes dark, even spooky American world that cooperates with what he wants to find in it.
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This classic hallucinatory thriller of the 1960s, newly available, is a book charged with sexual obsession and haunted by the sense that all narrative is itself obsessive and violent. The Scorpions is Robert Kelly's early novel about a psychiatrist who begins to believe one of his patient's paranoid inventions and searches for hard evidence in a funny, crazy, sometimes dark, even spooky American world that cooperates with what he wants to find in it.
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Add this copy of The Scorpions to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Doubleday & Company.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Modestly soiled, very good in a very good moderately soiled dust jacket. Author's first novel, of a New York psychiatrist and his Rolls Royce on a mysterious road trip to Fort Lauderdale.
Add this copy of The Scorpions to cart. $40.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Doubleday & Company.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Binding slightly cocked, near fine in a very good dust jacket with light foxing, primarily on the spine and flap folds. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Author's first novel, of a New York psychiatrist and his Rolls Royce on a mysterious road trip to Fort Lauderdale.
