The secret is out. That mysterious Abrams trailer was for a book , which he conceived and then commissioned from novelist Doug Dorst.
The book is actually two (or more) books in one: Ship of Theseus, purportedly written by (fictional) author V.M. Straka, and another story that plays out in handwritten margin notes and ephemera stuffed into that book's pages.
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Every page is crammed with notes from a male graduate student and a female college senior who are using the margins to piece together the mysteries of the tome's enigmatic author.
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The marginalia will be a delight to any book lover who has spent hours combing through the secrets pencilled in books at antique shops or dusty used bookstores.
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Then there are the extras — postcards, photos, letters, and photocopies, all meticulously designed to look realistically sloppy.
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