Jennifer Egan
The Candy House
The Candy House
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A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD AUTHOR SARAH EGAN'S NEW NOVEL THE CANDY HOUSE IS A DEEPLY MOVING STORY ABOUT THE QUEST FOR AUTHENTICITY, PRIVACY, AND MEANING IN A WORLD WHERE MEMORIES ARE NO LONGER OUR OWN. IT FEATURES CHARACTERS FROM EGAN'S PREVIOUS WORK AND EXPLORES THE CONSEQUENCES OF A TECHNOLOGY THAT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO ACCESS AND SHARE EVERY MEMORY. THE NOVEL IS INTELLECTUALLY DazzLING AND EXPRESSES THE TENACITY AND TRANSCENDENCE OF HUMAN LONGING FOR REAL CONNECTION, LOVE, FAMILY, PRIVACY, AND REDEMPTION.
Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 28 April 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time comes an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no longer our own—featuring characters from A Visit from the Goon Squad.
It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or externalising memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious—that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes. But not everyone.
In spellbinding linked narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Intellectually dazzling and extraordinarily moving, The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. With a focus on social media, gaming, and alternate worlds, you can almost experience moving among dimensions in a role-playing game. Egan takes her deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technology-driven, image-saturated culture (Vogue) to stunning new heights and delivers a fierce and exhilarating testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy, and redemption.
Weight: 592g
Dimension: 238 x 160 x 40 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472150912
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