Strange bodies
Subtitle: a novel
By: Marcel Theroux
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781443430517
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Transmigration; Forgery; Psychotherapy patients; Identity (Philosophical concept); Fiction
Description: Whatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead. In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen, failed husband and impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar. Slopen has been dead for months. Yet nothing can make this man change his story. What begins as a tale of apparent forgery, involving unseen letters by the great Dr. Johnson, grows to encompass a conspiracy between a Silicon Valley mogul and his Russian allies to exploit the darkest secret of Soviet technology: the Malevin Procedure.
Notes: "Originally published in the United Kingdom by Faber and Faber Ltd: 2013"--Title page verso.