{"product_id":"9781946502360","title":"The Incurables","description":"The year is 1953. Disgraced in the psychiatric hospital where he'd practiced for nearly thirty years, Dr. Walter Freeman has taken to traversing the country and proselyting about a very new kind of salvation: the transorbital lobotomy. \u003cp\u003eWith an ice pick and a hammer, Freeman promises to cure depression and catatonia, delusions and psychosis, with a procedure as simple and safe as curing a toothache. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he enters the backwater Oklahoma town of Burnwood, however, his own sanity will be tested. Around him swirls a degenerate and delusional cast of characters-a preacher who believes his son to be the Messiah, a demented and violent young prostitute, and a trio of machete-wielding brothers-all weaved into a grotesque narrative that reveals how blind faith in anything can lead to destruction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for THE INCURABLES: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A twisted tour through the asylum that Jon Bassoff calls his mind. \u003ci\u003eThe Incurables\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with the mad and desperate, but ultimately it's the humanity that Bassoff finds in his broken characters that sets this novel apart. Don't get me wrong though, \u003ci\u003eThe Incurables\u003c\/i\u003e is certifiably insane-and I mean that in the best possible way.\" -Johnny Shaw, Anthony Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBig Maria\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jon Bassoff's \u003ci\u003eThe Incurables\u003c\/i\u003e practically bleeds off the page with a dark poetry so intense, that you can still feel it after your eyes are closed. It's the rarest type of novel that won't only sink its teeth into you, it will leave you relishing the scar.\" -Todd Robinson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hard Bounce\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With influences and homage as wide and varied as \u003ci\u003eThe Alcoholics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCuckoo's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e, and 'Murder in the Red Barn,' \u003ci\u003eThe Incurables\u003c\/i\u003e oddly and most affectionately invokes Nick Cave-but not Cave the singer, Cave the novelist-with its backwoods preachers, hellbent harlots, and dead-eyed dreamers. Think \u003ci\u003eAnd the Ass Saw the Angel\u003c\/i\u003e, only superiorly written, carved by prose that cuts deep. Bassoff's crooked trip to hell is a powerful rumination on the beauty of the damned.\" -Joe Clifford, author of \u003ci\u003eJunkie Love\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLamentation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Incurables\u003c\/i\u003e reads like an unhinged murder ballad. In it, Bassoff's crafted a violent-and oddly affecting-ode to the outcasts, the downtrodden, the broken, the grotesque, and the misunderstood.\" -Chris Holm, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Big Reap\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Incurables\u003c\/i\u003e is terse, sparse and brutal, yet strangely touching at times. Another winner from the Bassoff pen.\" -William Meikle, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hole\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Imagine \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e as re-written by Elmore Leonard. A mesmerizing novel.\" -Ken Bruen, Shamus Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Guards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Down \u0026 Out Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049415360752,"sku":"9781946502360","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781946502360_p0.jpg?v=1763797687","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781946502360","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}