About the Book

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

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.

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9781443430517
• ISBN 10: 144343051X
• Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
• On Sale: 03/11/2014
• Pages: 384
• List Price:21.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : FICTION / General

Marcel Theroux

Biography

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 shortlisted for the prestigious National Book Award. He lives in London.

Other Works by Marcel Theroux

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  Strange Bodies

  By Marcel Theroux

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  Far North

  By Marcel Theroux