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Abrams, J. J. (Jeffrey Jacob) 1966- (author.). Dorst, Doug, (author.).

Summary: The chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they do not understand.

Record details

ISBN: 0316201642
ISBN: 9780316201643
Physical Description: xiv, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + Konfidentiell letter (2 leaves) [insert between pages viii-ix] + Pollard State University : VMS accused of... (1 leaf) [insert between pages 10-11] + Xerox copy of journal article (1 leaf) [insert between pages 20-21] + Newspaper clipping (2 pages) [insert between pages 32 -33] + Telegram (2 leaves) [insert between pages 54-55] + 1 newspaper clipping/memo (1 leaf) [insert between pages 68-69] + Letter from Desjardins (1 leaf) [insert between pages 86-87] + Letter from Jen (4 pages) [insert between pages 100-101] + 1 Brazil postcard [insert between pages 112-113] + 1 photograph of stone wall [insert between pages 130-131] + 1 Birds of Brazil postcard [insert between p.178-179] + 1 postcard of palms [insert between p.190-191] + 1 postcard of a beach [insert between pages 192-193] + 1 Pictorial Brazil postcard (20 April near Marau) [insert between pages 200-201] + So... My Uncle Zeke (5 pages) [insert between pages 202-203] + 1 photograph of woman [insert between pages 242-243] + 1 newspaper clipping within 1 greeting card [insert between pages 256-257] + 1 map on napkin [insert between pages 306-307] + 1 in memoriam card [insert between pages 360-361] + Letter from J (4 pages) [insert between pages 376-377] + Letter from Esmerlinda Pega (1 leaf) [insert between pages 416-417] + 1 decoder wheel [insert between end leaf and pages 3 of cover].
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

General Note:

Issued in slipcase.

Title and statement of responsibility from slipcase.

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.

Includes 22 items purporting to be documents concerning the "author," V. M. Straka, and his "translator," F. X. Caldeira from the Straka Arkiv; decoding wheel, letters, postcards and notes by the "readers," Jennifer and Eric; and other related materials.

Marginalia printed in various colors.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ship of Theseus / V.M. Straka.