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092    |fF|aHOSKING 
100 1  Hosking, Jay,|eauthor. 
245 10 Three years with the rat /|cJay Hosking. 
250    First U.S. edition. 
264  1 New York :|bThomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press,|c2017.
300    271 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "Three Years with the Rat is a mind-warping thriller that 
       will make you question reality as you conceive of it. One 
       of the most assured and haunting debuts I've read in 
       recent memory."  --Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter  
       After several years of drifting between school and go-
       nowhere jobs, a young man is drawn back into the big city 
       of his youth. The magnet is his beloved older sister, 
       Grace: always smart and charismatic even when she was 
       rebelling, and always his hero. Now she is a promising 
       graduate student in psychophysics and the center of a 
       group of friends who take "Little Brother" into their fold,
       where he finds camaraderie, romance, and even a decent 
       job. But it soon becomes clear that things are not well 
       with Grace. Always acerbic, she now veers into sudden 
       rages that are increasingly directed at her adoring 
       boyfriend, John, who is also her fellow researcher. When 
       Grace disappears, and John shortly thereafter, the 
       narrator makes an astonishing discovery in their apartment
       : a box big enough to crawl inside, a lab rat, and a note 
       that says This is the only way back for us. Soon he 
       embarks on a mission to discover the truth, a pursuit that
       forces him to question time and space itself, and 
       ultimately toward a perilous confrontation at the very 
       limits of imagination. This kinetic novel catapults the 
       classic noir plot of a woman gone missing into the twenty-
       first-century city, where so-called reality crashes into 
       speculative science in a novel reminiscent of 
       Danielewski's House of Leaves. Jay Hosking's Three Years 
       with the Rat is simultaneously a mind-twisting mystery 
       that plays with the very nature of time and the story of a
       young man who must face the dangerously destructive forces
       we all carry within ourselves. "--|cProvided by publisher.
650  0 Siblings|vFiction. 
650  0 Missing persons|vFiction. 
650  0 Space and time|vFiction. 
650  0 Mind and reality|vFiction. 
650  0 Psychophysics|vFiction. 
655  7 Psychological fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Science fiction.|2gsafd 
775 08 |iiReproduction of (manifestation):|aHosking, Jay.|tThree 
       years with the rat|dToronto, Ontario, Canada : Hamish 
       Hamilton, 2016|z9780670069378