S. The Ship of Theseus

V.M. Straka (pseudonym of J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst)

Publication Date: 2013

About this Item

Gray cloth hardcover with modernist illustration and titles on cover and spine in black illustrated slip-case. The seal is broken, but intact. Book is intentionally faux-aged and camouflaged as an ex-library book published in 1949 and heavily annotated with margin notes in the hands two fictitious readers (which forms a separate mystery overlaid on the narrative). This comedic homage to travel literature and pseudo-academic prose will not fail to delight. Contains 24 fictitious "laid-in" items between the pages: post-cards, news clippings, epistles, loose notes, business cards. From the publisher's statement: "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." Ships fast with tracking.

Seller Inventory # J01-df4-013

Bibliographic Details

• Title: S. The Ship of Theseus
• Publication Date: 2013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine