Bibliograph

The scapegoat, a novel, Sara Davis

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The scapegoat, a novel, Sara Davis

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The scapegoat

Oclc number

1153522713

Responsibility statement

Sara Davis

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"A literary mystery, following a man who works at a Northern Californian university as he investigates the death of his father"--, Provided by publisherN is employed at a prestigious California university, where he has distinguished himself as an aloof and somewhat eccentric presence. His meticulous, ordered life is violently disrupted by the death of his estranged father-- unanticipated and, as it increasingly seems to N, surrounded by murky circumstances. After a chance meeting with a young doctor, N begins to have vivid, almost hallucinatory daydreams about the year he spent in Ottawa, and a shameful episode from his past. As a shadowy group of fringe academics becomes preoccupied with a grim chapter in California's history, N's relations with his colleagues grow more and more hostile, and his ability to distinguish between delusion and reality begins to erode. Is he the author of his own investigation? Or is he the unwitting puppet of a larger conspiracy?

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