Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux

Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux

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Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux

AN AMBITIOUS AND WHOLY ORIGINAL NOVEL OF DECEPTION AND PSYCHOSIS BY THE AUTHOR OF THE NATIONAL BOK 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.

Theroux, Marcel: - Marcel Theroux is the author of A Blow to the Heart, A Stranger in the Earth, and The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase, which won a Somerset Maugham Award. He lives in London.
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ISBN 13 9781250062260
ISBN 10 1250062268
Title Strange Bodies
Author Marcel Theroux
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Picador USA
Year published 2015-06-02
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.