Strange Bodies

Author(s): Marcel Theroux

Fiction

Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old girlfriend, deception seems the only possible motive. Yet nothing can make him change his story. From the secure unit of a notorious psychiatric hospital, he begins to tell his tale: an account of attempted forgery that draws the reader towards an extraordinary truth - a metaphysical conspiracy that lies on the other side of madness and death. "Strange Bodies" takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey that poses questions about identity, authenticity, and what it means to be truly human.

General Information

  • : 9780571279791
  • : Faber and Faber
  • : Faber and Faber
  • : 0.52
  • : 01 June 0000
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 March 2013
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Marcel Theroux
  • : Paperback
  • : Export - Airside ed
  • : 384

More About The Product

It started when Nicky Slopen came back from the dead...

Marcel Theroux is the author of four previous novels, A Blow to the Heart, A Stranger in the Earth, The Paperchase, winner of the 2002 Somerset Maugham Award, and Far North which was short-listed for the America's prestigious National Book Award. He lives in London.