The scapegoat / Sara Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Sara, 1985- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers--Death--Fiction.

Fathers.

Fathers--Death.

Universities and colleges--Employees.

Hallucinations and illusions.

Hallucinations and illusions--Fiction.

Universities and colleges--Employees--Fiction.

Universities and colleges.

Conspiracy--Fiction.

Conspiracy.

California--Fiction.

California.

Genre:

Fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

210 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Scapegoat : a novel

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Summary:

"A literary mystery, following a man who works at a Northern Californian university as he investigates the death of his father"-- Provided by publisher.

N 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?

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Schneidman Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780374181451

0374181454

OCLC:

1153522713