There are basically three stories taking place here: the central novel, Ship of Theseus, written in the 40's by V.M. It's not an easy read-I don't think I've worked this hard since Absalom! Absalom!- but it's an engaging one. It is also Abrams and Dorst’s love letter to the written word.ĭoes a trip to the supermarket become a frantic sortie into a grocerian wilderness? Do battles rage between produce and deli, with stalks of celery raining like arrows upon quivering chunks of roast beef and aged Vermont cheddar? Are the pizzas lurking in a control room behind the freezer case, broadcasting shortwave signals that force the croutons, lemminglike, to hurl themselves from the shelves to the floor where they lie, helpless, waiting to be crushed by the wheels of an approaching cart?Īnd Abrams seems to have found a kindred spirit in Doug Dorst, for the two of them have created something imaginative and beautifully original. 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. 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. 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 rumours that swirl around him. 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 BOOK: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V. 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. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.Ī young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger.
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