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A work from famed director J.J. Abrams and noted novelist Doug Dorst combines a traditional narrative with a second story in the form of notes scribbled in the margins by two readers of the main narrative, in a story that also features clues online and in real life.
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<div><b>This one-of-a-kind bestseller from J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst captures the excitement of solving a mystery like no other book: "Both as literature and as a physical object,<i> S.</i> is a profound and tremendous work of art" (<i>Miami Herald</i>). </b><br><br><i>One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.</i><br><br>The chronicle of two readers finding each other, and their deadly struggle with forces beyond their understanding — all within the margins of a book conceived by <i>Star Wars </i>director J.J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst.<br><br>The book: <i>Ship of Theseus</i>, 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>S. contains 22 inserts and will be delivered in a sealed slipcase. <br><br><b>"The best-looking book I've ever seen." <i>—The New Yorker </i></b></div>
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