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(3.48) | 5 | Jonathan Lethem is perhaps our most active literary voice mining the genre margins of our culture.nbsp;nbsp;In this unique collection he creates an anthology that no one else could.nbsp;nbsp;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.… (more) |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » See also 5 mentions » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Lethem, Jonathan | — | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Amis, Martin | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Bardin, John Franklin | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Barthelme, Donald | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Borges, Jorge Luis | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Cortázar, Julio | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Davis, L. J. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Dick, Philip K. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Disch, Thomas M. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Erickson, Steve | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Fawcett, Brian | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Fowler, Karen Joy | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Grand, David | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hoban, Russell | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Jackson, Shirley | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Kavan, Anna | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lethem, Jonathan | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Link, Kelly | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Murakami, Haruki | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Nabokov, Vladimir | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | O'Brien, Flann | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | O'Brien, Geoffrey | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Palmer, Thomas | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Percy, Walker | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Potter, Dennis | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Priest, Christopher | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Sacks, Oliver | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Shainberg, Lawrence | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Sheckley, Robert | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | White, Edmund | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Woolrich, Cornell | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Worth, Valentine | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions Jonathan Lethem is perhaps our most active literary voice mining the genre margins of our culture.nbsp;nbsp;In this unique collection he creates an anthology that no one else could.nbsp;nbsp;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. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contains: - Introduction / Jonathan Lethem
- Dream Science [excerpt] / Thomas Palmer
- The Night Fave Up (La noche boca arriba) / Julio Cortázar
- Other People [excerpt] / Martin Amis
- Nightmare / Shirley Jackson
- Memories of Amnesia [excerpt] / Lawrence Shainberg
- Warm / Robert Sheckley
- Soul Walker / Brian Fawcett
- Cowboys Don't Cry [excerpt] / L.J. Davis
- The Second Coming [excerpt] / Walker Percy
- Funes, His Memory / Jorge Luis Borges
- Black Curtain [excerpt] / Cornell Woolrich
- The Third Policeman [excerpt] / Flann O'Brien
- Five Fucks / Jonathan Lethem
- Forgetting Elena [excerpt] / Edmund White
- Sarah Canary [excerpt] / Karen Joy Fowler
- Last Hippie / Oliver Sacks
- Notes Toward a History of the Seventies [excerpt] / Geoffrey O'Brien
- Ticket to Ride [excerpt] / Dennis Potter
- Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds / Haruki Murakami
- Geoffrey Sonnabend's Obliscence: Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter, an Encapsulation / Valentine Worth
- I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon / Philip K. Dick
- The Zebra Struck / Anna Kavan
- The Squirrel Cage / Thomas M. Disch
- Louse [excerpt] / David Grand
- Game / Donald Barthelme
- The Affirmation [excerpt] / Christopher Priest
- Kleinzeit [excerpt] / Russell Hoban
- Days Between Stations [excerpt] / Steve Ericson
- That in Aleppo Once / Vladimir Nabokov
- The Deadly Percheron [excerpt] / John Franklin Bardin
- Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose / Kelly Link
- An Incomplete Annotated Bibliography of Amnesia Fiction / Jonathan Lethem
- Contributors / Jonathan Lethem
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The second problem is they're not exceptional overall. These stories are overall average and a few below average. Most were just dull. There were only one or two that really grabbed my attention and became more memorable (he, he). Even the Lethem contribution starts great and then just devolves into (alleged) cleverness.
The only thing I'm sure of is in about 2 years I will have developed amnesia whenever someone asks me anything about this book. ( )