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The Evolution of Inanimate Objects
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491_9781897415313
In the archives of Ontarios London Asylum, psychiatrist Harry Karlinsky comes across a familiar surname in the register. Could Thomas Darwin, involuntarily admitted to the Asylum as a danger to others, be a relative of the great Charles Darwin? And what might have brought him to this place, where he died alone, a world away from home? In this stunning factitious biography Karlinsky gives us a Nabokovian tale of Darwinian theory gone wrong. Although decisively a work of fiction, The Evolution of Inanimate Objects invites sustained uncertainty as to whether Thomas is a character of pure invention or simply a heretofore little known figure.
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