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Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss (2002, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-100385503997
ISBN-139780385503990
eBay Product ID (ePID)2141389
Product Key Features
Book TitleMan Walks Into a Room
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Literary
Publication Year2002
GenreFiction
AuthorNicole Krauss
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight17.3 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-053699
Reviews"Man Walks into a Room; Nicole Krauss, with this remarkably felt, sharp-witted debut novel, strides into the forecourt of American letters." Susan Sontag "Poignant and distinctive, forceful and prophetic, Nicole Krauss's sentences are blazed into these pages like a revelation." Ken Kalfus "Man Walks into a Room is that rare thing: an evocative, finely written first novel that is a true work of fiction. In Samson Greene, Nicole Krauss has created a character whose loss of memory echoes the cultural amnesia, the loss of history that threatens to make our future more dangerous than our past." A. M. Homes
Dewey Edition21
Dewey DecimalFIC
SynopsisA man is found wandering the desert outside Las Vegas. The cards in his wallet identify him as Samson Greene, a Columbia University English professor last seen leaving campus eight days ago. Thirty-six years old, with a wife, Anna, and a dog, Frank. But Samson doesn't even recognize his own name, and by the time Anna has made her away across the country to pick him up, doctors have discovered a cherry-sized tumor in his brain; its removal eradicates the last twenty-four years of Samson's memories. Samson and Anna return to New York together, where Samson struggles to connect with the woman he knows he is supposed to love, with his career, with his home, with his "life." He remembers his mother, his childhood in California, the basic shape and processes of the world, but everything else remains blank. In the meantime, Anna sees the same husband she has always seen, but every day has to steel herself against the notion that the man she loves is the Samson who remembers the last quarter century, the Samson who has been shaped by the history of their lives together. Into these daily lives fraught with a peculiarly intimate tension comes a charismatic scientist who invites Samson to take part in a groundbreaking, experimental project involving the transfer of memories from one mind to anotherall it requires is a trip back to the Nevada desert. It doesn't take much to lure Samson away from his profound loneliness in the Citywhere he is stuck between missing the past life that surrounds him and yearning to enjoy the fresh start he's been giventhough Anna is never far from his thoughts as he embarks on the adventure that could mean the end of the old Samson Greene. In Samson, Nicole Krauss creates an ordinary man who his facing a searingly new world with gritty poignancy and purely instinctual empathy. Reminiscent of early DeLillo, but with the emotional sensitivity of a budding Cheever, Krauss's sharp, intelligent storytelling effortlessly peels away the layers of quotidian circumstances to reveal the subtle joys and woes of simple survival.
LC Classification NumberPS3611.R38M36 2002
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