Where can I find a summary of the book "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr?

Question

Yea ive been looking and i cant find anywhere with a summary. I know its kind of lazy of me but i got a test in 2 and a half weeks and its to long of a read. Really dont have time for it with work and hockey and other school work in the way.. Please help me!

ur actually not becuase i already go to a catholic high school.

Answer 1

There are many ways of finding the infomation you want, and I have included the links you will need to help you. Of course, in addition to this, you can also use the resources at your local library, they are only too happy to help you with your searches and queries.

http://www.google.com

http://www.wikipedia.org/

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/web

http://findarticles.com/

http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp

http://www.aresearchguide.com/

http://www.geocities.com/athens/troy/886...

http://www.studentresearcher.com/search/...

http://www.chacha.com/

Answer 2

""The Alienist" is Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychiatrist whose theories on the relationship between mental illness and criminal behavior have led him to advocate modern forensic and psychological profiling techniques as the means of solving crimes in 19th century New York City. His ideas have been met with stiff resistance from within the city's hide-bound police department.

In 1896, the city is faced with something it's never seen before: a serial killer on the loose. Within a matter of weeks, six young boys – all of them recent immigrants to the United States – have been mercilessly slaughtered by a bloodthirsty monster on the loose in New York.

Enter Dr. Kreizler, who wants to employ the forensic and profiling techniques that he's so long advocated. With the grudging approval of Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, he assembles a team of what can only be described as misfits to assist him in his efforts.

What follows is a completely engrossing, lightning-paced, thrill-a-minute story as Kreizler and his team gather evidence from the crime scenes, analyze that evidence, and begin formulating a picture of the serial killer. It soon becomes evident that the person they're looking for is deeply disturbed; highly intelligent; and, as it turns out, watching them as they go about their work."

"Packed with period detail, vignettes of true historical characters, and weighing in at nearly 550 pages, Caleb Carr's The Alienist is an ambitious project for a first novel. The book deserved to be nominated for an Anthony Award based on sheer audacity alone and the fact that Carr mostly pulls off this book is remarkable.
Set in late nineteenth century New York The Alienist tells the story of a series of brutal murders by a serial killer preying on teenage male prostitutes. Ordinarily such murders would be ignored, their recognition being an embarrassment to the city's elders, but, through a happy coincidence three college friends are re-united and set out to by-pass the normal channels in an attempt to solve the case. They are: Theodore Roosevelt , Police Commissioner, keen on stamping his authority on a begrudging, corrupt force, John Moore, a local crime reporter, knowledgeable about and acquainted with the city's low-life and, most importantly, Dr Laszlo Kreizler practitioner of the infant, and, misunderstood art of psychoanalysis; the "Alienist" of the title. These three set up a covert operation to capture the killer involving the recruitment of other characteristically marginal characters. And, over the course of the book we are taken to the Old West, to "Sing Sing", and back - in pursuit of the murderer - to the gloomy vice-ridden streets of old New York where newly immigrant families are struggling to make a life against the odds."

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Answer 3

Go to a bookstore, look at a hardcover copy and read the fly leaf. You should find a summary there.

Answer 4

I'm paying your teachers with my taxes so you can play hockey. Jesus Christ, what's wrong with this picture. Time to privatize the schools and snatch the schools retirement system. Every govt. employee is a welfare hustler.

Answer 5

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Try one of thes sites and download the book for Free

Answer 6

go 2 booknotes.com