The Man Without a Shadow

ISBN-13: 9780008165413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 384 str.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Opis

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

Recenzje

'Exceptional. Is Margot exploiting Eli? Are the experiments conducted on him ethical? Do we feel sorry for Margot, desperately in love with a man who will never remember her? Oates leaves us to ponder these questions long after finishing the book' Literary Review

'Oates excels at creating spooky, off-kilter atmospherics... The maze of memory is an ideal setting for Oates' trademark mixture of melodrama and pathos' Kirkus Review

'This complexly suspenseful and darkly erotic duel between a lovesick mad scientist and her beleaguered yet far from helpless subject illuminates, with strobe-light intensity, the labyrinthine mysteries of our brains and minds' Booklist

'A powerful new novel . . . We see how, in the hands of a great writer, a gripping story can be torn from the poisonous rubble' Rose Tremain, Guardian (on The Sacrifice)

'Oates demonstrates a fearlessness in her writing. The book has the energy and force of a river in full flow, filled with dangerous undercurrents and eddies' Daily Mail (on The Sacrifice)

'Visceral and hypnotizing . . . simmers with barely concealed rage at the impotence inflicted on people by race and gender inequalities' Lesley McDowell, Independent (on The Sacrifice)

O autorze

Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and one of America's most respected literary figures. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction.