Download or read book Equus and Shrivings written by Peter Shaffer and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equus deals with Dr. Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist, who is confronted with Alan Strang, a boy who has blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion. This very passion is as foreign to Dysart as the act itself. To the boy's parents it is a hideous mystery; Alan has always adored horses. To Dysart it is a psychological puzzle that leads both doctor and patient to a complex and disturbingly dramatic confrontation.