β Scribed by Richard Powers
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
{ Oct 2020 - Verified ebook }
Hardcover, 451 pages
Published 2006
National Book Award for Fiction (2006)
Following a near-fatal accident, Mark Schluter is nursed by his reluctant sister. But when he emerges from his coma, Mark believes that this woman β who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister β is really an identical impostor. As a famous neurologist investigates his condition, Mark tries to learn what really happened the night of his accident.
On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman β who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister β is really an identical impostor. Shattered by her brotherβs refusal to recognize her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case histories describing the infinitely bizarre worlds of brain disorder. Weber recognizes Mark as a rare case of Capgras Syndrome, a doubling delusion, and eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition.
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Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2007)
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