Overview of The Man Without a Shadow Book

From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel that examines the mysteries of human memory and personalityIn 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.

• Book Type :

Contemporary Fiction

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

384 pages

• ISBN - 10 :

0008165416

• The Man Without a Shadow Published On :

3 Mar 2017

• Resource:

Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Fiction Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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