Description
When Ariel Manto discovers a mysterious, long-lost nineteenth-century book called The End of Mr. Y at a used bookstore, she becomes entangled in a dangerous adventure that blurs the line between reality and imagination. Following the cryptic instructions hidden within its pages, Ariel ingests a strange tincture and enters the Troposphere—a dreamlike realm where consciousness itself becomes a landscape to explore and time and space lose all meaning. As she navigates this surreal dimension, she uncovers profound truths about the book's origins, the fate of its author, and the nature of existence itself, all while questioning whether her extraordinary journey is genuine discovery or elaborate delusion. Scarlett Thomas weaves together philosophy, science, and speculative fiction in this inventive novel that challenges readers to reconsider the boundaries between the possible and impossible, the real and imagined.
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paperback
Harvest Books
Published Oct 2, 2006
416 pages
ISBN: 9780156031615
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First Published
2006
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas.