"New York Times" bestselling author of "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa
Puffs" and "Downtown Owl," "the Ethicist" of the "New York Times
Magazine," Chuck Klosterman returns to fiction with his second
novel--an imaginative page-turner about a therapist and her unusual
patient, a man who can render himself invisible.
Therapist Victoria Vick is contacted by a cryptic, unlikable man
who insists his situation is unique and unfathomable. As he slowly
reveals himself, Vick becomes convinced that he suffers from a
complex set of delusions: Y__, as she refers to him, claims to be a
scientist who has stolen cloaking technology from an aborted
government project in order to render himself nearly invisible. He
says he uses this ability to observe random individuals within
their daily lives, usually when they are alone and vulnerable.
Unsure of his motives or honesty, Vick becomes obsessed with her
patient and the disclosure of his increasingly bizarre and
disturbing tales. Over time, it threatens her career, her marriage,
and her own identity.
Interspersed with notes, correspondence, and transcriptions that
catalog a relationship based on curiosity and fear, "The Visible
Man "touches on all of Chuck Klosterman's favorite themes--the
consequence of culture, the influence of media, the complexity of
voyeurism, and the existential contradiction of normalcy. Is this
comedy, criticism, or horror? Not even Y__ seems to know for sure.
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