Summary
This one-of-a-kind bestseller from J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst captures the excitement of solving a mystery like no other book: "Both as literature and as a physical object, S. is a profound and tremendous work of art" ( Miami Herald ).
One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.
The chronicle of two readers finding each other, and their deadly struggle with forces beyond their understanding -- all within the margins of a book conceived by Star Wars director J.J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst.
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.
S. contains 22 inserts and will be delivered in a sealed slipcase.
"The best-looking book I've ever seen." --The New Yorker
One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.
The chronicle of two readers finding each other, and their deadly struggle with forces beyond their understanding -- all within the margins of a book conceived by Star Wars director J.J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst.
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.
S. contains 22 inserts and will be delivered in a sealed slipcase.
"The best-looking book I've ever seen." --The New Yorker
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Books and reading
-- Fiction.
Authors and readers -- Fiction. Strangers -- Fiction. Books -- Provenance -- Fiction. Marginalia -- Fiction. Imaginary books and libraries -- Fiction. Amnesiacs -- Fiction. Ships -- Fiction. Seafaring life -- Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Sea stories. |
| Publisher | [New York] :Mulholland Books :2013 Little, Brown, |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Other Titles | Ship of Theseus |
| Contributors |
Dorst, Doug,
author. |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
Issued in slipcase. Title from slipcase. "Bad Robot, Melcher Media." Marginalia printed in various colors. Volume inside slipcase: title page title and statement of responsiblity: Ship of Theseus / by V.M. Straka; imprint on title page: New York : Winged Shoes Press, 1949; title page and page 3 of cover printed with "stamps" of Laguna Verde High School Library; spine includes Dewey call number label. Accompanying inserts: 1. Konfidentiell letter (2 leaves) [insert between pages vi-vii] -- 2. Pollard State University : VMS accused of ... (1 leaf) [insert between pages 10-11] -- 3. Xerox copy of journal article (1 leaf) [insert between pages 20-21] -- 4. Newspaper clipping (2 pages) [insert between pages 32 -33] -- 5. Telegram (2 leaves) [insert between pages 54-55] -- 6. 1 newspaper clipping/memo (1 leaf) [insert between pages 68-69] -- 7. Letter from Desjardins (1 leaf) [insert between pages 86-87] -- 8. Letter from Jen (4 pages) [insert between pages 100-101] -- 9. Brazil postcard [insert between pages 112-113] -- 10. 1 photograph of stone wall [insert between pages 130-131] -- 11. 1 Birds of Brazil postcard [insert between pages 178-179] -- 12. 1 postcard of palms [insert between pages 190-191] -- 13. 1 postcard of a beach [insert between pages 192-193] -- 14. 1 Pictorial Brazil postcard (20 April near Marau) [insert between pages 200-201] -- 15. So ... My Uncle Zeke (5 pages) [insert between pages 202-203] -- 16. 1 photograph of woman [insert between pages 242-243] -- 17. 1 newspaper clipping within 1 greeting card [insert between pages 256-257] -- 18. 1 map on napkin [insert between pages 306-307] -- 19. 1 in memoriam card [insert between pages 360-361] -- 209. Letter from J (4 pages) [insert between pages 376-377] -- 21. Letter from Esmerlinda Pega (1 leaf) [insert between pages 416-417] -- 22. 1 decoder wheel [insert between end leaf and page 3 of cover]. |
| Description |
xiv, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 22 inserts. |
| ISBN | 9780316201643 0316201642 |
| Other | Classic View |