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"A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey. The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him. The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears."--Slipcase.
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Books and reading, Literary forgeries and mystifications, Authors and readers, Imaginary books and libraries, Provenance, Fiction, Strangers, Books, Marginalia, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, sea stories, Fiction, romance, suspense, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2013-11-17, New York Times bestseller, Specimens, Altered books, Artists' booksShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Issued in slipcase.
Title and statement of responsibility from spine of slipcase.
Edition and production statements from colophon, back pastedown of volume.
Volume title: Ship of Theseus / by V.M. Straka. 1st ed. New York : Winged Shoes Press, 1949.
Consists of a "found" book, a novel titled Ship of Theseus, with library markings and marginal notations by two fictional readers, Jennifer and Eric, reacting to the text and to each other.
Volume also includes 22 inserted items purporting to be documents relating to the supposed author, V.M. Straka, and his translator, F.X. Caldeira, and such items as postcards, notes, written sheets, and a code wheel relating to the fictional readers.
Marginalia printed in various colors.
Cover illustration.
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