Book description
In a secret world of forbidden knowledge, power comes at a terrible
price ...
Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance
encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he
finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin's
name leads him down a very different path to any he'd ever imagined.
The envelope, and the mysterious manuscript it contains, leads to a
secret world of obsession and privilege, a world of freedom and power
and, for a while, it's a world that seems to answer all Quentin's
desires. But the idyll cannot last - and when it's finally shattered,
Quentin is drawn into something darker and far more dangerous than
anything he could ever have expected ...
Lev Grossman was born in 1969, the son of two English professors,
and grew up in a suburb of Boston. He graduated from Harvard with a
degree in literature and went on to the Ph. D. program in comparative
literature at Yale, although he left after three years without
finishing a dissertation.
After Yale Grossman worked for a string of dot-coms while writing
freelance articles about books, technology and culture in general for
numerous magazines, newspapers and websites, until he was hired by
Time in 2002 and became the magazine's book critic as well as one of
its lead technology writers.
He is also the author of the international bestseller CODEX.
