Ship Of Theseus

Abrams, J. J. & Dorst, Doug

ISBN 10: 0857864777 / ISBN 13: 9780857864772

Published by Canongate, 2014

About this Item

This book comes in a protective box, that has had the sticker that holds it together opened. It appears all of the corresponding literature (letters, postcrads, etc) that come with the book are present. It's exceptionally hard to know what damage to the book is part of the publication! There are some chips in the covers, and an ex library sticker but this appears to be part of the story of the book (it is intended to look likean old library book!) 1116.

Seller Inventory # WWJ047

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ship Of Theseus
• Publisher: Canongate
• Publication Date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0857864777
• ISBN 13: 9780857864772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Writers, Writing & Journals

About this title

Synopsis

One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace and desire.

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 on 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 rumours 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.

S., conceived by filmmaker J.J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don't understand. It is also Abrams and Dorst's love letter to the written word.

About the Author

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker J.J. Abrams has produced, directed, or written films and television shows including Fringe, Lost, Alias, Felicity, Star Trek, Cloverfield, Super 8, Mission: Impossible, and more.

Doug Dorst teaches writing at Texas State University-San Marcos. He is author of the PEN/Hemingway-nominated novel Alive in Necropolis and the collection The Surf Guru. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Epoch, and elsewhere. Dorst is also a three-time Jeopardy! champion.