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From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel examining the mysteries of human memory and personality In 1965, a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the subject of her study, a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the last seventy seconds. Over the course of thirty years, the two embark on mirroring journeys of self-discovery. Margot, enthralled by her charming, mysterious, and deeply lonely patient, as well as her officious supervisor, attempts to unlock Eli's shuttered memories of a childhood trauma without losing her own sense of identity in the process. And Eli, haunted by memories of an unknown girl's body underneath the surface of a lake, pushes to finally know himself once again, despite potentially devastating consequences. As Margot and Eli meet over and over again, Joyce Carol Oates' tightly written, nearly clinical prose propels the lives of these two characters forwards, both suspended in a dream-like, shadowy present, and seemingly balanced on the thinnest, sharpest of lines between past and future. Made vivid by Oates' eye for detail and searing insight into the human psyche, The Man Without a Shadow is an eerie, ambitious, and structurally complex novel, as poignant as it is thrilling.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Man Without a Shadow
• Author: Joyce Carol Oates
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780008165383
• ISBN: 0008165386
• ID: 09527940
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Weight: 508 g
• Dimensions: 155 × 234 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. January 2016

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