The Man Without a Shadow: A Novel
In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes: the “man without a shadow,” who will be known, in time, as the most-studied and most famous amnesiac in history. A vicious infection has clouded anything beyond the last seventy seconds just beyond the fog of memory.Over the course of...
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In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes: the “man without a shadow,” who will be known, in time, as the most-studied and most famous amnesiac in history. A vicious infection has clouded anything beyond the last seventy seconds just beyond the fog of memory.Over the course of thirty years, the two embark on mirrored journeys of self-discovery: Margot, enthr
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780062416117 (0062416111)
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
The Man Without a Shadow, Joyce Carol Oates, author; Susan Hanfield, narrator Margot Sharpe is an intern in the Darven Park, Pennsylvania, neuropsychology laboratory of Milton Ferris. His university is engaged in the scientific study of memory, and its chief subject is amnesiac, Elihu Hoopes. It is ...
Elihu Hoopes is the man without a shadow. Due to an infection and high fever, he sustained brain damage and has lost the ability to retain memory for longer than 70 seconds. Even though he doesn’t remember her from one meeting to the next, the neuroscientist Margot who is studying and testing him, ...
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