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" The end of Mr. Y "
Scarlett Thomas.
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BL
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799650
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b619709
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| Main Entry
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Scarlett Thomas.
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The end of Mr. Y\ Scarlett Thomas.
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| Publication Statement
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Edinburgh ; New York: Canongate Books, [2008]
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1847673686
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: 9781847673688
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| Abstract
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Ariel Manto, an oversexed renegade academic, stumbles across a cursed text, which takes her into the Troposphere, a dimension where she can enter the consciousness, undetected, of other beings. Thomas first signals something is askew even in Ariel's everyday life when a university building collapses; soon after, Ariel discovers her intellectual holy grail at a used book shop: a rare book with the same title as the novel, written by an eccentric 19th-century writer interested in "experiments of the mind." The volume jump-starts her doctoral thesis, but her adviser disappears. And when Ariel follows a recipe in the book, she finds herself in deep trouble in the Troposphere. Her young ex-priest love interest may be too late to save her. Thomas blithely references popular physics, Aristotle, Derrida, Samuel Butler and video game shenanigans while yoking a Back to the Future, like conundrum to a gooey love story.
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FICTION -- General.
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Scientists -- Fiction.
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Scientists.
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PR6120.H66S337 2008
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Scarlett Thomas
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