Strange Bodies - Brossura

Theroux, Marcel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571279805 ISBN 13: 9780571279807

Casa editrice: Faber And Faber Ltd., 2014

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

A chilling and thrilling parable for our times. (Observer, Paperback of the Week)

The unfolding of the narrative is genuinely eerie, but the richness of allusion and elegance of design as much an enquiry into language and identity as a high-concept literary thriller. Its exploration of human vulnerability, the notion that consciousness may be no more than "a trick of the light", is moving as well as though-provoking, as elegiac as it is gripping. (Justine Jordan Guardian)

Ingenious and captivating. (Sunday Business Post)

This is a superb technological fantasy, a tense thriller and a brilliantly imagined debate about the relationship between body and soul. Wonderful. (The Times)

A compelling story that bends concepts of reality while keeping a grip on the most sceptical reader . . . A chilling thriller. (Independent)

What if a person could survive past his bodily death, to be reconstituted in another form? That is the question Marcel Theroux explores in this wondrous, uncanny novel . . . Funny and blood-curdling at the same time. (James Gleick New York Review of Books)

An absorbing and disturbing metaphysical tale, challenging everything we believe about what it means to be human. (John Gray, author of Straw Dogs)

Descrizione del libro:

Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux: It started when Nicky Slopen came back from the dead . . .

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• Editore: Faber And Faber Ltd.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0571279805
• ISBN 13: 9780571279807
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384