The scapegoat : a novel /
Davis, Sara, 1985-
The scapegoat : a novel / Sara Davis. - First edition. - 210 pages ; 22 cm
"A literary mystery, following a man who works at a Northern Californian university as he investigates the death of his father"-- 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?
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Fathers--Death--Fiction.
Hallucinations and illusions--Fiction.
Universities and colleges--Employees--Fiction.
Conspiracy--Fiction.
California--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.
The scapegoat : a novel / Sara Davis. - First edition. - 210 pages ; 22 cm
"A literary mystery, following a man who works at a Northern Californian university as he investigates the death of his father"-- 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?
9780374181451 0374181454
2020046535
Fathers--Death--Fiction.
Hallucinations and illusions--Fiction.
Universities and colleges--Employees--Fiction.
Conspiracy--Fiction.
California--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.