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Title: The Man Without a Shadow
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrator: Susan Hanfield
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-28-16
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
From best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel that examines the mysteries of human memory and personality.
In 1965, a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the subject of her study, a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the last 70 seconds. Over the course of 30 years, the two embark on mirroring journeys of self-discovery.
Margot, enthralled by her charming, mysterious, and deeply lonely patient, as well as her officious supervisor, attempts to unlock Eli's shuttered memories of a childhood trauma without losing her own sense of identity in the process. And Eli, haunted by memories of an unknown girl's body underneath the surface of a lake, pushes to finally know himself once again, despite potentially devastating consequences.
As Margot and Eli meet over and over again, Joyce Carol Oates' tightly written, nearly clinical prose propels the lives of these two characters forwards, both suspended in a dream-like, shadowy present, and seemingly balanced on the thinnest, sharpest of lines between past and future.
Made vivid by Oates' eye for detail and searing insight into the human psyche, The Man Without a Shadow is an eerie, ambitious, and structurally complex novel, as poignant as it is thrilling.
Critic Reviews:
"Oates excels at creating spooky, off-kilter atmospherics.... The maze of memory is an ideal setting for Oates' trademark mixture of melodrama and pathos." (Kirkus Review)
"This complexly suspenseful and darkly erotic duel between a lovesick mad scientist and her beleaguered yet far from helpless subject illuminates, with strobe-light intensity, the labyrinthine mysteries of our brains and minds." (Booklist)
"A powerful new novel.... We see how, in the hands of a great writer, a gripping story can be torn from the poisonous rubble." (Rose Tremain, Guardian (on The Sacrifice)
"Oates demonstrates a fearlessness in her writing. The book has the energy and force of a river in full flow, filled with dangerous undercurrents and eddies." (Daily Mail (on The Sacrifice)
"Visceral and hypnotizing...simmers with barely concealed rage at the impotence inflicted on people by race and gender inequalities." (Lesley McDowell, Independent (on The Sacrifice)
Members Reviews:
Ethically Interesting!
The book description ââIn 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes: the âman without a shadow,â who will be known, in time, as the most-studied and most famous amnesiac in history. A vicious infection has clouded anything beyond the last seventy seconds just beyond the fog of memory.ââ gives us a clue that this novel is based on the case of HM, the real patient who became the most famous amnesiac in history. JCO acknowledges Corkinâs book on HM as her primary research source, and JCOâs fictional amnesiac, EH, is indeed spookily like HM in many of his responses to the world he lives in following the loss of his ability to make new conscious memories. Likewise, the laboratory environment and the memory tests EH is given (again and again, and every time new to EH) are well researched and accurate.