- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Second Impression edition (23 July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747553947
- ISBN-13: 978-0747553946
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 265,374 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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ON A BEAM OF LIGHT is Gene Brewer's brilliant sequel to K-PAX, the novel in which a man called 'prot' (rhyming with goat) claims he is a perfect being from the planet K-PAX - an idyllic world without wars, government or religion. At the Manhattan Institute his psychiatrist is determined to prove that prot's identity is nothing more than a tragic case of multiple-personality disorder. But when people begin to notice prot's peculiar characteristics, many of them start to doubt the diagnosis. ON A BEAM OF LIGHT is the tale of prot's return to earth and his plan to take some beings back with him, the next time he goes home. For Dr. Brewer, as well as for the patients who are desperate to win his favour in the hope that they might be chosen, it is a race against time, for this visit prot claims, will be his last. Reminiscent of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, it is a hilarious, touching and wonderful story.
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his name is prot. nobody knows where he's from. but everyone wants to go there...
his name is prot. nobody knows where he's from. but everyone wants to go there...
'K-Pax is a gloriously off-beat comedy that reads like a combination of STARMAN Oliver Sacks' psychiatry-turned-philosophy classic, THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT, K-PAX explores the nature of truth, reality and our enduring need to believe' MAXIM
K-PAX is currently being made into a film starring Kevin Spacey as prot.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I thought K-PAX was a brilliant book. I don't like sequels or series generally. K-PAX II is good but never really generates the same intense involvement that K-PAX does. I felt that K-PAX had an good ending but K-PAX II finishes with the feeling that it is just a pause before K-PAX III. I will probably buy K-PAX III but I'd rather have read something new by Gene Brewer. I suppose one of the great things about K-PAX is the ambiguity of whether Prot is from another world or is a mentally disturbed human. We, the readers, want him to be from K-PAX but disappointingly it seems that the good doctor is finding more and more evidence that he is just another screwed up human. I am worried that by the time I finish K-PAX III I'll be wishing I'd never read beyond the last page of the first book as the sequels could destroy something beautiful.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a psychiatrist myself, I read K-PAX (the first book) with interest and even without the personal interest, was pulled through the novel. "On A Beam of Light" is almost as good, although I didn't feel that it was quite as compelling. Its relation to psychiatry (on this side of the Atlantic, at least) doesn't bear terribly much relation to reality but nevertheless it is a compelling story. K-PAX set high standards. I look forward to K-PAX III
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Wow! Where do I start? How do I start? Now, we all know sequels can be trouble, right? So, I had the same preconceptions when approaching "On a Beam of Light," the sequel to the cult smash and now adapted for the silver screen: "K-PAX." I was wrong in having these preconceptions, the book was wonderful.
It did go through some, at times confusing, twists and turns. This brings together much of the cast from the original book. In the wake of the departure of "prot" (rhymes with goat), Dr. Gene Brewer is left the catatonic "Robert" to treat. Five years to the day, after "prot" left, he has returned and brought Robert out of his state of catatonia. After Dr. Brewer published "K-PAX," the news of "prot's" return has traveled quickly. "prot" is a star of sorts. All the while the media and scientific blitz surrounds "prot," Dr. Brewer is trying to get at the reason Robert has been catatonic. That is all I will say about the plot as to avoid spoiling a wonderful story.
This book is brilliant. I am now anxiously awaiting the delivery of the third and final book to my doorstep. The story and the character interaction in rather amazing, I was actually sad to see the book end. It was that good. I am sorry to say that I do not think this could be well adapted to a script as a sequel to the K-PAX movie. The one minorly important role, removed from the first K-PAX movie, plays a rather imperative part in the sequel. . .bummer. . .Oh well, it is a good read. Buy it, it is wonderful
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A Good Book - With Some Fatal Flaws
I am a huge fan of 'K-Pax' and for the most part I also enjoyed 'K-Pax II'. The sequel follows on 5 years from the original at a time when Prot said he would return. Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2007 by Sam
Brewer on mission not a beam!
Having read and I must admit thoroughly enjoyed the first K-Pax book when it first came out I was overjoyed at the prospect of reading part 2. Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2002
Stunning follow-up
It is a long time since I read a book in one sitting but this compelling tale pulls you through page by page. Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2001 by billythewind
An enjoyable and interesting read
A book that I have been wanting to read for a while now after reading the first installment a good few years ago. Read more
Published on 27 Aug 2001 by robert_bracewell@yahoo.com
Superb follow up to a amazing novel
Brewer brings the delusional world of the mentally ill to the reader in a sublime novel. Is he mad or is he from Kpax? Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2001
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