A Book with No Author

By: Brent Robison

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Paperback | 22 December 2023

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236 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.37

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A manuscript arrives in the mail, sent by mistake. It asks the question: What if your private life was made public by someone you've never met? Stories within stories tell of two men: a photographer whose life is upended as he seeks the elusive writer who's invaded his world, and the writer who exploits his newfound gift for telling tales and violating boundaries. But is any of this real? If such a book arrived anonymously on your doorstep, could you just let it go? An obsessive search for the author becomes a hall of mirrors, echoed both inside and outside the mystery manuscript. Where is truth? Who owns your life story? And where do stories come from, anyway?

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Intellectually ambitious but tenderly invested in characters linked by their curiously shared stories, Robison questions authorship itself without sacrificing the authenticity of storytelling. By turns charming and (intentionally) frustrating, this Rubik's Cube of a book lingers after the last page is turned.

-Deirdre Day, artist and writer

ï»ï»This novel is a whack in the head. A Book with No Author is a fascinating story that knocks our sense of reality to pieces. Like the real world reflected in a mirror, everything here is recognizable and familiar except, of course, that left and right have been switched around and so have we. Brent Robison is a master at making us doubt our selves and our realities, and A Book with No Author shows him at the top of his wonderfully engaging game. If there is fiction beyond metafiction, a category for impossible evidence and mind-bending logic, this book is it.

-Eugene Mirabelli, author of Renato!, 2021 Silver IPPY Award winner

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A Book with No Author

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