S.
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Contributors
Published
New York, N.Y. : Mulholland Books, 2013.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780316201643, 0316201642
Physical Desc
xiv, 456 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 22 items
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Mulholland Books, 2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780316201643, 0316201642
Notes
General Note
Title from slip cover.
General Note
Title page and cover title: Ship of Theseus / V. M. Straka. Imprint on title page: Winged Shoes Press, New York, 1949. Title page and page [3] of cover printed with "stamps" of Laguna Verde High School Library; spine includes a Dewey call number label.
General Note
Includes 22 items purporting to be documents concerning the "author," V. M. Straka, and his "translator," F. X. Caldeira from the Straka Arkiv; letters, post cards and notes by the "readers," Jennifer and Eric; and other related materials.
General Note
Marginalia printed in various colors.
Description
One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire. A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. 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. Between the pages, online, and in the real world, evidence of their interaction, ephemera that brings this tale vividly to life. S., conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don't understand, and it is also Abrams and Dorst's love letter to the written word.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION ABRAMS | Available |
Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Adult Fiction | FIC ABRAMS | Available |
Florham Park Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION ABRAMS | Available |
Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction | ABRAMS | Checked Out |
Montville Township Library - Adult Fiction | FIC ABRAMS | Available |
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Abrams, J. J. 1., Dorst, D., & Straka V. M. (2013). S. (First edition.). Mulholland Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Abrams, J. J. 1966-, Doug, Dorst and Straka V. M. 2013. S.. Mulholland Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Abrams, J. J. 1966-, Doug, Dorst and Straka V. M. S. Mulholland Books, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Abrams, J. J. 1966-, Doug Dorst, and Straka V. M. S. First edition., Mulholland Books, 2013.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.
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