# The Medusa Frequency

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- Book: [The Medusa Frequency](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-hoban/the-medusa-frequency) ([The Medusa Frequency.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-hoban/the-medusa-frequency.md))
- Authors: [Russell Hoban](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-hoban)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-539-7
- Published: 2021-04-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

An inexplicable message flashing onto the screen of his Apple II computer at 3 a. m. heralds the beginning of a startling quest for frustrated author Herman Orff. Taking up the offer of a cure for writer's block leads him to 'those places in your head that you can't get to on your own'. Herman is plunged into a semi-dreamland inhabited by a bizarre combination of characters from myth and reality: the talking head of Orpheus; a lost love; the young girl of Vermeer's famous portrait - and a frequency of Medusas.