K-PAX III: The Worlds of Prot

May 16, 2007

Reading:

I just finished this one when I started this list. From sometime in January, 2005, to January 30, 2005.

Specs:

Brewer, Gene, K-PAX III: The Worlds of Prot, Published by Bloomsbury press, London, 2002. Johnson County Central Resource Library book.

Overview:

Prot is back. Giselle and Robert Porter have a son (named Gene after his Psychiatrist). Robert is washing Gene jr., and suddenly Prot is back, and Robert is not there, so Robert is back at MPI. Prot claims not to have left but to have been seeing the world.

Again, Prot helps the patients, even talking with the autists. Gene cannot find Robert, who is very catatonic, but he is able to talk to the alternate personalities. It is obvious that there are more serious problems.

It is discovered that Robert blames himself for the death of his father because his father downed while Robert was supposed to be taking care of him. He never fully recovers in the novel.

At the end, Prot takes 100 "beings" to K-PAX, including a lot of animals, and people not from MPI. They are in public and just disappear.

I think the author may have gotten a bit tired of the story by the end. It sounded that way to me, anyway.

Quote:

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