The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates

The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates

From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel examining the mysteries of human memory and personality

‘ExceptionalIs Margot exploiting Eli? Are the experiments conducted on him ethical? Do we feel sorry for Margot, desperately in love with a man who will never remember her? Oates leaves us to ponder these questions long after finishing the book’ Literary Review

‘Oates excels at creating spooky, off-kilter atmospherics… The maze of memory is an ideal setting for Oates' trademark mixture of melodrama and pathos’ Kirkus Review

‘This complexly suspenseful and darkly erotic duel between a lovesick mad scientist and her beleaguered yet far from helpless subject illuminates, with strobe-light intensity, the labyrinthine mysteries of our brains and minds’ Booklist

‘A powerful new novel . . . We see how, in the hands of a great writer, a gripping story can be torn from the poisonous rubble’ Rose Tremain, Guardian (on The Sacrifice)

‘Oates demonstrates a fearlessness in her writing. The book has the energy and force of a river in full flow, filled with dangerous undercurrents and eddies’ Daily Mail (on The Sacrifice)

‘Visceral and hypnotizing . . . simmers with barely concealed rage at the impotence inflicted on people by race and gender inequalities’ Lesley McDowell, Independent (on The Sacrifice)

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Accursed. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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ISBN 13	9780008165383
ISBN 10	0008165386
Title	The Man Without a Shadow
Author	Joyce Carol Oates
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2016-01-28
Number of pages	384
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