Name: S.
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Author: Doug Dorst
ISBN: 9780857864772

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Canongate Books Ltd.

Author

Doug Dorst

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

472

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

16.5 x 24.7 cm

ISBN13

9780857864772

Doug Dorst (Author) · Canongate Books Ltd. · Hardcover

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Synopsis "S. "

J.J. Abrams and acclaimed novelist Doug Dorst create a reading experience like no other: at the core of this multi-layered literary puzzle of love and adventure is a book of mysterious provenance.

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.