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In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes: the "man without a shadow," who will be known, in time, as the most-studied and most famous amnesiac in history. A vicious infection has clouded anything beyond the last seventy seconds just beyond the fog of memory. Over the course of thirty years, the two embark on mirrored 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 self in the process. Made vivid by Oates' usual eye for detail, and searing insight into the human psyche, The Man Without a Shadow is eerie, ambitious, and structurally complex, unique among her novels for its intimate portrayal of a forbidden relationship that can never be publicly revealed
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The Man Without a Shadow, Joyce Carol Oates
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2016
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Verlag
- HarperCollins US
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2016
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 369
- ISBN10
- 006241609X
- ISBN13
- 9780062416094
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Romantik, Historische Romane, Liebe, Gegenwartsliteratur, Wissenschaft, Zeitgenössische Liebesromane, USA, Erinnerungen, Forschung, Neurowissenschaft, Gedächtnisverlust, Amnesie
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- Beschreibung
- In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes: the "man without a shadow," who will be known, in time, as the most-studied and most famous amnesiac in history. A vicious infection has clouded anything beyond the last seventy seconds just beyond the fog of memory. Over the course of thirty years, the two embark on mirrored 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 self in the process. Made vivid by Oates' usual eye for detail, and searing insight into the human psyche, The Man Without a Shadow is eerie, ambitious, and structurally complex, unique among her novels for its intimate portrayal of a forbidden relationship that can never be publicly revealed