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A01=Joyce Carol Oates
Author_Joyce Carol Oates
Category1=Fiction
Category=NL-FA
COP=United Kingdom
Format=BC
HMM=234
IMPN=Fourth Estate Ltd
ISBN13=9780008165383
Language_English
PA=Temporarily unavailable
PD=20160128
POP=London
Price=€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=HarperCollins Publishers
SMM=28
Subject=Modern & Contemporary Fiction
WG=510
WMM=153

The Man Without a Shadow

English

By (author): Joyce Carol Oates

From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel examining the mysteries of human memory and personality In 1965, a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the subject of her study, a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the last seventy seconds. Over the course of thirty years, the two embark on mirroring journeys of self-discovery. Margot, enthralled by her charming, mysterious, and deeply lonely patient, as well as her officious supervisor, attempts to unlock Eli''s shuttered memories of a childhood trauma without losing her own sense of identity in the process. And Eli, haunted by memories of an unknown girl''s body underneath the surface of a lake, pushes to finally know himself once again, despite potentially devastating consequences. As Margot and Eli meet over and over again, Joyce Carol Oates'' tightly written, nearly clinical prose propels the lives of these two characters forwards, both suspended in a dream-like, shadowy present, and seemingly balanced on the thinnest, sharpest of lines between past and future. Made vivid by Oates'' eye for detail and searing insight into the human psyche, The Man Without a Shadow is an eerie, ambitious, and structurally complex novel, as poignant as it is thrilling. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 510g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 28mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Jan 2016
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008165383
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