Jonathan Lethem 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, Haruki
Murakami, Flann O'Brien, Edmund White, and many others.
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