The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0375706615 ISBN 13: 9780375706615

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000

Riassunto

An unusual anthology of short stories, excerpts, and essays on amnesia features a series of incisive and entertaining contributions from thomas M. Disch, Martin Amis, Walker Percy, Jorge Luis Borges, Cornell Woolrich, Oliver Sacks, Edmund White, Donald Barthelme, Shirley Jackson, and other notable international authors. Original. 17,500 first printing.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jonathan Lethem lives in Brooklyn, New York.  Motherless Brooklyn is coming from Vintage in Fall 2000.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

hem is perhaps our most active literary voice mining the genre margins of our culture.  In this unique collection he creates an anthology that no one else could.  He draws on the work of such unforgettables as Julio Cortazar, who presents a man caught between the ancient and modern worlds unable to say which is real; Philip K. Dick, who tells the story of a man trapped on a spaceship of the somnolent, unable to sleep and slowly losing his mind; Shirley Jackson, who takes us on a nightmarish trip across town with a young secretary; and Oliver Sacks, who presents us with an aging hippie who possesses no memory of anything that has taken place since the early seventies.

What Lethem has done is nothing less than define a new genre of literature-the amnesia story-and in the process he invites us to sit down, pick up the book, and begin to forget.

Also including: John Franklin Bardin, Donald Barthelme, Thomas M. Disch, Karn Joy Fowler, David Grand, Anna Kavan, H

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375706615
• ISBN 13: 9780375706615
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432
• Redattore: Lethem Jonathan