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

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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!
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Answer 1

You're not going to find it on cliffnotes or sparknotes.
The best I could come up with is this long review of the book in the NY Times.

A sample:

"You can practically hear the clip-clop of horses' hooves echoing down old Broadway in Caleb Carr's richly atmospheric new crime thriller, "The Alienist," set in 19th-century New York City. You can taste the good food at Delmonico's. You can smell the fear in the air.

The year is 1896. On a March night so cold that horse waste has frozen in the streets, John Schuyler Moore, a police reporter for The New York Times, is awakened in his grandmother's house at 19 Washington Square North and summoned to the site of the newly begun Williamsburg Bridge, on the East River. There he encounters the new Police Commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, so grim-visaged that his huge teeth are for a change not snapping. Inside the bridge's tower, Roosevelt shows Moore the mutilated corpse of yet another boy from the brothels of lower Manhattan. A seemingly insane killer has struck once again.

The task of tracking this madman has been assigned to Moore's and Roosevelt's old friend from their Harvard days, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, who is an alienist, or an expert on mental pathologies (minds that are alienated from themselves), as the novel's epigraph explains.

These three men became acquainted during their Harvard undergraduate years, when Kreizler debated William James on determinism, James having argued for free will, Kreizler having sided with psychological causation. The dredging up of this argument takes us to the philosophical heart of "The Alienist," which explores the causes of insanity and criminality, and ultimately the nature of evil."

It's either that or buy from bookrags - see second link.

Whoa - hold it. I found something - see third link:

A sample:

"The Alienist is a psychological thriller which revolves around one of the earliest forensic teams put together in the late 19th century. In order to catch a serial killer, the NY Police Commissoner (Theodore Roosevelt) put together a secret and rather unexpected forensic team including a journalist (John Moore), a police secretary (Sara Howard), two detectives (the Isaacsons), and the "alienist" himself (Laszlo Kreizler). In addition to finding out how a psychological profile is built of a criminal, within the pages of this book you also get to fall in love with the timeless characters it describes.
Timeline and Series of Events
Note: This section contains major spoilers for The Alienist. Please do not read this timeline if you have not read the book.

March 3, 1896: John Moore, Dr Laszlo Kreizler, and police commisioner Theodore Roosevelt view the body of Georgio "Gloria" Santorelli atop the western anchor of the Williamsburg Bridge. In a meeting later in the morning at 300 Mulberry street, they decide to launch a secret investigation into the Santorelli murder and others that have been like it recently. Laszlo and John are promised the help of two Detectives along with a police liaison, who will keep Roosevelt up to date on the investigation as his involvement cannot be made public. Kreizler and Moore then spend the next few days organising their work and private lives so they will be able to devote most of their time working on the case.

March 5, 1896: John and Kreizler meet the Detective Sergeants Isaacsons (Marcus and Lucius). To assess their abilities, Kreizler gets them to perform a post-mortem in the operating theatre at the Kreizler Institute on the Zweig children who were murdered several years ago in the same style as Georgio Santorelli. Leaving Laszlo with the Isaacsons, Mr Moore and Sara Howard, an old friend and police secretary, interview Mrs. Santorelli at her tenement flat. They find out that unknown priests have been to pay out the Santorelli family earlier in the day. Upon leaving the flat, the pair are then almost attacked by two thugs who turn out to be ex-cops. Later in the evening, John and Kreizler spend the evening at the opera with Sara, who has coincidentally turned out to be their police liaison, before having dinner at Delmonico's with the Isaacson brothers to review their post-mortem findings. After the dinner, John decides to do some private investigating of his own by visiting the brothel where Santorelli performed his trade. Unfortunately, he is drugged and would have been killed if not for Stevie Taggert, Kreizler's ward, stepping in and saving him.

March 7, 1896: John wakes up from his drug-induced sleep at 808 Broadway, the team's new headquarters. He and Kreizler then perform an evaluation of a man who recently murdered another child but who proves unrelated to the case. Meanwhile, the Isaacson brothers perform further post-mortems of two other boys who were killed in the same way as Santorelli and the Zweig children. In the afternoon, the group have their first official meeting at 808 Broadway, where Kreizler provides the team with a large selection of psychology books and articles so they can begin to understand the psychological state of the killer.

March 8 - April 2, 1896: During this time, the team works on developing their own psychology knowledge while developing theories about the killer. They also accompany Kreizler on numerous evaluations of murderers that may help in their case."

Answer 2

The Alienist Book

Answer 3

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Where can I find a SUMMARY of the book "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr?
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!
Looking for chapter summary
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Answer 4

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

Answer 5

cliffnotes