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On this taut and amazing novel, the New York Times best-selling and Country wide Book Award-winning writer of The Sacrifice, The Accursed, and Lovely, Deep, Deep examines the mysteries of ram, personality, and individuality and pierces the enigmatic drive that drives real human lives - love. In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets the attractive, charismatic Elihu Hoopes - the "man without a darkness" - whose devastated ram, struggling to store new experience or to get the old, can make him the most well-known and most researched amnesiac in history. During the period of another 30 years, Margot herself becomes well-known for her tests with E. H. - and inadvertently falls deeply in love with him, despite the ethical ambiguity with their affair and though he remains forever elusive and inexplicable to her, haunted by mysteries of the past. The Man With out a Shadow monitors the romantic, illicit romance between Margot and Eli as scientist and subject embark after an exploration of the labyrinthine mysteries of the mind. Where does "memory" reside? Where is "love"? Can you really love a person who cannot love you, who cannot "bear in mind" you from one meeting to the next? Made brilliant by her exceptional vision for details and her eager insight in to the real human psyche, The Man Without A Shadow is a unique history of forbidden love, a kind of secret, evolving relationship, depicted in Joyce Carol Oates' limited, impassioned prose. It is an uncanny, ambitious, and structurally complex novel that penetrates the mind and illuminates the heart.
