The Man Without a Shadow

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Synopsis

In this taut and fascinating novel, the bestselling, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of The Sacrifice, The Accursed, and Lovely, Dark, Deep examines the mysteries of memory, personality, and identity and pierces the enigmatic force that drives human lives—love.

In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets the attractive, charismatic Elihu Hoopes—the “man without a shadow”—whose devastated memory, unable to store new experiences or to retrieve the old, will make him the most famous and most studied amnesiac in history. Over the course of the next thirty years, Margot herself becomes famous for her experiments with E. H.—and inadvertently falls in love with him, despite the ethical ambiguity of their affair, and though he remains forever elusive and mysterious to her, haunted by mysteries of the past.

The Man Without a Shadow tracks the intimate, illicit relationship between Margot and Eli, as scientist and subject embark upon an exploration of the labyrinthine mysteries of the human brain. Where does “memory” reside? Where is “love”? Is it possible to love an individual who cannot love you, who cannot “remember” you from one meeting to the next?

Made vivid by her exceptional eye for detail and her keen insight into the human psyche, The Man Without A Shadow is a unique story of forbidden love, a kind of secret, evolving marriage, depicted in Joyce Carol Oates’s tight, impassioned prose. It is an uncanny, ambitious, and structurally complex novel that penetrates the mind and illuminates the heart.

Chapters

  • 001 The Man Without A Shadow

    Duration: 37s
  • 002 Chapter 01

    Duration: 01h15min
  • 003 Chapter 02 Part I

    Duration: 50min
  • 004 Chapter 02 Part II

    Duration: 29min
  • 005 Chapter 03

    Duration: 01h11min
  • 006 Chapter 04

    Duration: 57min
  • 007 Chapter 05 Part I

    Duration: 20min
  • 008 Chapter 05 Part II

    Duration: 59min
  • 009 Chapter 06 Part I

    Duration: 39min
  • 010 Chapter 06 Part II

    Duration: 43min
  • 011 Chapter 07 Part I

    Duration: 41min
  • 012 Chapter 07 Part II

    Duration: 40min
  • 013 Chapter 08 Part I

    Duration: 01h05min
  • 014 Chapter 08 Part II

    Duration: 35min
  • 015 Chapter 09 Part I

    Duration: 52min
  • 016 Chapter 09 Part II

    Duration: 36min
  • 017 Chapter 10

    Duration: 54min
  • 018 Chapter 11

    Duration: 16min
  • 019 Chapter 12

    Duration: 23min
  • 020 Credits

    Duration: 01min
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