With his debut novel, _Samedi the Deafness_ , Jesse Ball emerged as one of our most extraordinary new writers. Now, Ball returns with this haunting tale of love and storytelling, hope and identity. When Selah Morse sees a young woman get hit by a speeding taxicab, he rushes her to the hospital.
The Way Through Doors
β Scribed by Ball, Jesse
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 137 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1299244947
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
When pamphleteer Selah Morse witnesses a taxi run down a young woman, he takes her to the hospital and, in telling the staff that he is her boyfriend and that her name is Mora Klein, is given custody of her. She is amnesiac, and his orders are to reconstruct her memories through story. hroughout, Morse searches out Mora Klein's identity, picking up other travelers along the way, among them a Coney Island mind reader; a doting husband who may or may not have made a deal with the devil; a love interest for Morse fascinated by the pamphleteer's opus; and a fiddle-playing dog.--From Publisher's Weekly.
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