{"product_id":"the-man-without-a-shadow-9780062416100","title":"The Man Without a Shadow","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this taut and fascinating novel, the bestselling, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sacrifice, The Accursed, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLovely, Dark, Deep\u003c\/em\u003e examines the mysteries of memory, personality, and identity and pierces the enigmatic force that drives human lives--love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Man Without a Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade vivid by her exceptional eye for detail and her keen insight into the human psyche, \u003cem\u003eThe Man Without A Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOates, Joyce Carol:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers \u003cem\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eBlonde\u003c\/em\u003e, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Falls\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409523052818,"sku":"9780062416100","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fedbb4c9-2703-4546-b2c3-df713ef6609f.jpg?v=1729289671","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-man-without-a-shadow-9780062416100","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}