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001 2013034018
003 DLC
005 20141211090124.0
008 130910s2014 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2013034018
020 $a9780374270650
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$dDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR6070.H38$bS77 2014
082 00 $a823/.914$223
084 $aFIC019000$aFIC022060$aFIC014000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aTheroux, Marcel,$d1968-
245 10 $aStrange bodies /$cMarcel Theroux.
250 $aFirst American edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2014.
300 $a292 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $a"Originally published in 2013 in slightly different form by Faber and Faber Limited, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
520 $a"A dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North Whatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead. In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen, failed husband and impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar. Slopen has been dead for months. Yet nothing can make this man change his story. What begins as a tale of apparent forgery, involving unseen letters by the great Dr. Johnson, grows to encompass a conspiracy between a Silicon Valley mogul and his Russian allies to exploit the darkest secret of Soviet technology: the Malevin Procedure. With echoes of both Jorge Luis Borges and Philip K. Dick, Marcel Theroux's Strange Bodies takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey that poses questions about identity, authenticity, and what it means to be truly human"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"A dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aTransmigration$vFiction.
650 0 $aIdentity (Philosophical concept)$vFiction.
650 0 $aForgery$vFiction.
650 0 $aPsychotherapy patients$vFiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Historical.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/650/9780374270650/image/lgcover.9780374270650.jpg