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"A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both in...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Mulholland Books,
[2013]
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| Summary: | "A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey. The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him. The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears."--Slipcase. |
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| Item Description: | Issued in slipcase. Title and statement of responsibility from slipcase. Title page and cover title: Ship of Theseus / V. M. Straka. Imprint on title page: Winged Shoes Press, New York, 1949. Title page and page [3] of cover printed with "stamps" of Laguna Verde High School Library; spine includes a Dewey call number label. Includes 22 items purporting to be documents concerning the "author," V. M. Straka, and his "translator," F. X. Caldeira from the Straka Arkiv; decoding wheel, letters, postcards and notes by the "readers," Jennifer and Eric; and other related materials. Marginalia printed in various colors. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + Konfidentiell letter (2 leaves), [insert between p. viii-ix] ; Pollard State University : VMS accused of... ( 1 leaf), [insert between p. 10-11] ; Xerox copy of journal article (1 leaf), [insert between p. 20-21] ; Newspaper clipping (2 p.), [insert between p. 32 -33] ; Telegram (2 leaves), [insert between p. 54-55] ; 1 Newspaper clipping/memo (1 leaf), [insert between p. 68-69] ; Letter from Desjardins (1 leaf), [insert between p. 86-87] ; Letter from Jen (4 p.), [insert between p. 100-101] ; 1 Brazil postcard [insert between p. 112-113] ; 1 photograph of stone wall [insert between p. 130-131] ; 1 Birds of Brazil postcard [insert between p.178-179] ; 1 Postcard of palms [insert between p.190-191] ; 1 Postcard of a beach [insert between p. 192-193] ; So... My Uncle Zeke (5 p. on yellow, legal paper), [insert between p. 202-203] ; 1 photograph of woman [insert between p. 242-243] ; 1 newspaper clipping within 1 greeting card [insert between p. 256-257] ; 1 map on napkin [insert between p. 306-307] ; 1 In memoriam card [insert between p. 360-361] ; Letter from J [4 p.], [insert between p. 376-377] ; Letter from Esmerlinda Pega (1 leaf), [insert between p. 416-417] ; 1 decoder wheel [insert between end leaf and p. 3 of cover]. |
| ISBN: | 9780316201643 0316201642 |
| Author Notes: | Doug is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and he has received Fellowships from the Michener-Copernicus Society and the National Endowment for the Arts. He co-wrote New York Times bestseller S. with J. J. Abrams which was released October 2013 from Little Brown imprint Mulholland Book. (Bowker Author Biography) |
