Strange Bodies - Couverture souple

Theroux, Marcel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1250062268 ISBN 13 : 9781250062260

Editeur : Picador USA, 2015

Synopsis

AN AMBITIOUS AND WHOLLY ORIGINAL NOVEL OF DECEPTION AND PSYCHOSIS 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. 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.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

What is on the menu is superior science fiction ... the novel exercises a grim fascination. (Mail on Sunday )

Brilliantly imagined ... You'll be left with much to ponder by Theroux's intellectually engaging imagination. (Metro )

A bold and wonderfully weird novel by Marcel Theroux, which reads like an intelligent, witty flirtation between serious literature and science fiction ... The perfect literary thriller for the internet age ... Theroux weaves a taut, edge-of-your-seat tale which asks whether one way or another we can live on after death. Couldn't put it down. (Red ) --Red

'An absorbing and disturbing metaphysicall tale, challenging everything we believe about what it means to be human.' --John Gray

Présentation de l'éditeur :

It started when Nicky Slopen came back from the dead . . .

Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old girlfriend, deception seems the only possible motive, yet nothing can make him change his story.

From the secure unit of a notorious psychiatric hospital, he begins to tell his tale: an account of attempted forgery that draws the reader towards an extraordinary truth—a metaphysical conspiracy that lies on the other side of madness and death.

Strange Bodies takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey that poses questions about identity, authenticity and what it means to be truly human.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador USA
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1250062268
• ISBN 13: 9781250062260
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292