Strange bodies / Marcel Theroux.

Author/creator Theroux, Marcel, 1968-
Format Book
EditionFirst American edition.
PublicationNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Description292 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentCover image
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Abstract "A dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North Whatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead. In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen, failed husband and impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar. Slopen has been dead for months. Yet nothing can make this man change his story. What begins as a tale of apparent forgery, involving unseen letters by the great Dr. Johnson, grows to encompass a conspiracy between a Silicon Valley mogul and his Russian allies to exploit the darkest secret of Soviet technology: the Malevin Procedure. With echoes of both Jorge Luis Borges and Philip K. Dick, Marcel Theroux's Strange Bodies takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey that poses questions about identity, authenticity, and what it means to be truly human"-- Provided by publisher.
Abstract "A dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North"-- Provided by publisher.
General note"Originally published in 2013 in slightly different form by Faber and Faber Limited, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
Genre/formHistorical fiction.
Genre/formDetective and mystery fiction.
Genre/formGothic fiction.
Genre/formHistorical fiction.
Genre/formDetective and mystery fiction.
Genre/formGothic fiction.
Genre/formGothic fiction.
Genre/formFiction.
Genre/formGothic fiction.
LCCN 2013034018
ISBN9780374270650
ISBN0374270651

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Joyner General Stacks PR6070.H38 S77 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold