The Double
by Jose Saramago
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0156032589
- ISBN 13
- 9780156032582
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Synopsis
Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night, noises in his apartment wake him. He goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video, and as he watches in astonishment he sees a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like the man he was five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face. He sleeps badly. Against his own better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he establishes the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a dark meditation on identity and, perhaps, on the crass assumption behind cloning-that we are merely our outward appearance rather than the sum of our experiences.
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- Bookseller
- A Novel Escape (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45108
- Title
- The Double
- Author
- Jose Saramago
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0156032589
- ISBN 13
- 9780156032582
- Publisher
- Mariner
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Fla
- Date Published
- October 2005
- Pages
- 336
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