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001    on1153522713 
003    OCoLC 
005    20210318101552.0 
008    201015s2021    nyu           000 1 eng   
010      2020046535 
019    1238031465 
020    9780374181451|q(hardcover) 
020    0374181454|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)1153522713|z(OCoLC)1238031465 
040    DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dOCLCO|dORX|dILC|dOCLCO|dFSP|dNZAUC 
042    pcc 
049    CKEA 
050 00 PS3604.A9757|bS33 2021 
082 00 813/.6|223 
100 1  Davis, Sara,|d1985-|eauthor. 
245 14 The scapegoat :|ba novel /|cSara Davis. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,|c2021. 
300    210 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "A literary mystery, following a man who works at a 
       Northern Californian university as he investigates the 
       death of his father"--|cProvided by publisher. 
520    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? 
650  0 Fathers|xDeath|vFiction. 
650  0 Hallucinations and illusions|vFiction. 
650  0 Universities and colleges|xEmployees|vFiction. 
650  0 Conspiracy|vFiction. 
651  0 California|vFiction. 
655  7 Mystery fiction.|2gsafd 
655  7 Detective and mystery fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft 
914    FARM278503 
994    C0|bCKE