S.(Ship of Theseus)

Doug Dorst; V. M. Straka

ISBN 10: 0316201642 / ISBN 13: 9780316201643

Published by Canongate Books / Winged Shoes Press, USA, 2013

About this Item

A very good Grey cloth pictorial board hardcover with black lettering and yellow decoration, in a very good slip case. 470 pages. This fascinating Purportedly written in 1949 by V. M. Straka, it is in fact a book written in 2013 by J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst as an exercise in book creativity. The supposedly library book with its mysterious author is traded between two students, Eric and Jennifer, as they try and find out who the author really is. Included are the following ephemera: 5 hand written letters; 2 facsimile telegrams; 8 cards, postcards and photos; 1 handwritten card with newspaper obituary; Notes on Pollard State University notepaper; 2 photocopied letters; 1 extract from the Toronto Review; 2 facsimile newspaper extracts; 1 map on serviette; 1 circular compass device. A man is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey. A very nice copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: S.(Ship of Theseus)
• Publisher: Canongate Books / Winged Shoes Press, USA
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316201642
• ISBN 13: 9780316201643
• Binding: Hardcover in Slipcase
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction

About this title

Synopsis

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 

About the Author

Emmy-Award-winning filmmaker J.J. Abrams has produced, directed, or written films and television shows including Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Fringe, Lost, Alias, Felicity, Star Trek, Cloverfield, Mission: Impossible, and more.

Doug Dorst teaches writing at Texas State University. He is the author of the PEN/Hemingway-nominated novel Alive in Necropolis and the collection The Surf Guru. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Epoch, and elsewhere. Dorst is also a three-time Jeopardy! champion.