Strange Bodies

Marcel Theroux

earliest edition we have, 2013 Faber & Faber, Limited, 2014 384 pages

A dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North Whatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead. In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen, failed husband and impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar. Slopen has been dead for months. Yet nothing can make this man change hi...

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Editions we hold

Strange Bodies paperback · 2015 · Picador · 304 pages · 9781250062260
Strange Bodies edition · 2014 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 384 pages · 9780571279807
Strange Bodies hardcover · 2014 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 304 pages · 9780374270650
Strange Bodies edition · 2014 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 304 pages · 9780374709518
Strange Bodies edition · 2013 · Howes Limited, W. F. · 400 pages · 9781471239700
Strange Bodies edition · 2013 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 352 pages · 9780571279791
Strange Bodies edition · 2013 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 384 pages · 9780571279814
Strange Bodies edition · 2013 · Faber and Faber · 376 pages · 9780571297894

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