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Synopsis
Jonathan Lethem plays with memory, time and character in this picaresque novel about a man called Chaos, stricken with amnesia in Hatfork, Wyoming, who discovers that his name is really Everett Moon and that he is from San Francisco. In this near-future, however, San Francisco has become a "city of erasures," perpetually foggy, where the names of the neighborhoods have all changed. Moon takes a psychotropic drug and continues his journey--this time among his own hallucinations--in a book that explores the nature of reality, personality, and imagination.
| Size | | Length: | 247 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 15.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Lethem is still borrowing from [Philip K.] Dick's grungy vision of the future, but ...he slips out of the shadow of his predecessors to deliver a droll, downbeat vision that is both original and persuasive. After all, any writer who can make you hang on every word of a conversation between a clock and a bonsai tree is an author to be reckoned with."
Jones
"...I erase [Chaos's] memories and make him incredibly uncertain. He has to reassemble. Or assemble. Reassembly is a pipe dream for the characters in 'Amnesia Moon'. Chaos has to go to the 'protagonists' workshop' as a tabula rasa and audition possible selves. As he moves through the landscape, he's trying on different selves."
Lethem
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