Door Number Three

O'Leary, Patrick

ISBN 10: 0312862873 / ISBN 13: 9780312862879

Published by Tor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1997

About this Item

Time travel, shape shifting, lucid dreaming, alien abduction and World War III are put together with the central character's attempt to explain them to his therapist. A lucid shape shifting attack on consensual reality.383 pages,published @ $14.95.

Seller Inventory # 12750

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Door Number Three
• Publisher: Tor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312862873
• ISBN 13: 9780312862879
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Trade Paper
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

John Donelly's life is changed forever the day Laura, a young therapy patient, tells him that she has been left for a year on Earth by the Holock, an alien race. If she can convince one person - and she has chosen him - that she is telling the truth, she can stay when they come back for her. And she exposes her breasts as evidence, revealing square nipples. His least profound response is to drop his cigarette into the crease in his chair.

So begins the wildest SF novel since the passing of Philip K. Dick. Patrick O'Leary's Door Number Three is a constant wellspring of surprise and wonder, a novel about a young man of today and a woman from somewhere else who is out to love or kill him - or both. The whole, apparently real, world and everything in it can never be the same again.

About the Author

Patrick O’Leary was born in 1952 in Saginaw, Michigan. He graduated with a B.A. in Journalism from Wayne State University where he shared first prize for Poetry in the Thompkin's Competition in 1974. His poetry has appeared in literary magazines across North America including The Iowa Review, The Little Magazine, Poetry East, and The University of Windsor Review. Door Number Three, his first novel, was chosen as "One of the best novels of 1995" by Publisher's Weekly. His second novel, The Gift, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award. His novels have been translated into German, Japanese, Polish, French and Braille. O'Leary works in advertising and has won numerous industry awards. He travels extensively, but he makes his home near Detroit with his wife and sons.