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

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Jonathan Lethem

The Vintage Book of Amnesia

An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss

Jonathan Lethem

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Vintage Books
15 August 2000

Anthologies (non-poetry)

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.

Edited by: Jonathan Lethem
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 342g
ISBN: 9780375706615
ISBN 10: 0375706615
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 15 August 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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