
The publication information is printed under a mock-up of a high school library's check-out history of the book, spanning the years 1957 to 2000. title, no reference is made to Dorst or Abrams, and the only reference to the book's true publishing information appears in fine print inside the back cover. is presented in the form of a novel called Ship of Theseus written by a fictional, elusive author named V. M. It is composed of the novel Ship of Theseus (by a fictional author), hand-written notes filling the book's margins as a dialogue between two college students hoping to uncover the author's mysterious identity and the novel's secret, plus loose supplementary materials tucked in between pages.

The novel is unusual in its format, presented as a story within a story. is a 2013 novel written by Doug Dorst and conceived by J. J. It is also Abrams and Dorst's love letter to the written word.S. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don't understand. The Readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts and fears.

The Writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumours that swirl around him. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched on a disorienting and perilous journey.


The Book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Abrams and acclaimed novelist Doug Dorst create a reading experience like no other in this dazzling novel of love and mystery.
