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The Candy Houseopens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is ';one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis.' Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or ';externalizing' memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, ';Own Your Unconscious'which allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of othershas seduced multitudes.

In the world of Egan's spectacular imagination, there are ';counters' who track and exploit desires and there are ';eluders,' those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative stylesfrom omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets.

Intellectually dazzling,The Candy Houseis also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love.

';A beautiful exploration of loss, memory, and history' (San Francisco Chronicle), ';this is minimalist maximalism. It's as if Egan compressed a big 19th-century novel onto a flash drive' (The New York Times).

The Candy House

SKU: 9781668000441
€20.95Price
  • Format

    Paperback / softback
  • Author

    Jennifer Egan


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