《SHIP OF THESEUS》由V.M.STRAKA編著。
A young woman picks up a book left
behind by a stranger. Inside it are his
margin notes, which reveal a reader
entranced by the story and by its mysterious
author. 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.
The book: Ship of Theseus, 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.
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.
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.
S., conceived by filmmaker J. J. 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, and it is also Abrams and Dorst
’s love letter to the written word.

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