# theMystery.doc

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- Authors: [Matt McIntosh](https://www.bookquiver.com/matt-mcintosh)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2017-10-05

## Description

Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-9/11, theMystery. doc follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write his second book, a national epic he hopes will last forever, and as he searches for a form that will express the world as it has become, revealing the interconnectedness of all our lives. Pop-up ads, internet search results, spam, lines of code, frames of film and television mix with canonical works of literature, alchemical manuscripts, transcripts of personal conversations, and the story of a man who wakes up one morning not knowing who he is, a blank document called themystery. doc newly appeared on his computer. Part love story, part prose poem, part documentary, part existential whodunit, part future-fiction, part Bildungsroman, part memoir, theMystery. doc is about the quest to find something lasting in a world where everything is in danger of slipping away. Love, loss, birth, death, technology, terrorism and the American Dream come together to form a great symphonic work that dazzles in both its structure and in its deep emotional resonance.

## Editions

### theMystery.doc

- Publisher: grove_press_uk
- ISBN: 978-16-1185-620-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2017-10-05
- Language: en_GB