Confessions of a Memory Eater Contributor(s): Kennedy, Pagan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0972898484 ISBN-13: 9780972898485 Publisher: Leapfrog Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2006 Annotation: Win Duncan is at a crossroads in his career when he is summoned by a brilliant chemist from his college days who is developing a drug that gives one the ability to recall life's best memories. Duncan becomes a beta tester and loses himself to the most delicious moments of his past until he discovers the dark side effects of the drug. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Dystopian |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2006001912 |
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.66" W x 8.9" (0.60 lbs) 248 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Complicated, cool and vulnerable at the same time...you can't help falling for Pagan Kennedy's characters.--Stephen Dubner, The New York Times Once a brilliant historian with a promising academic future, Win Duncan is at a crossroads in his career when he is mysteriously summoned by Litminov, a wild but brilliant chemist from his college days. Litminov has made millions since, and has bought a pharmaceutical company solely to develop MEM, an experimental drug that gives one the ability to recall life's best memories with crystal clarity. Duncan becomes a beta tester and loses himself to the most delicious moments of his past--those precious few years with his mother who died tragically when he was just a child; ecstatic sex with his wife when they first fell in love--until he discovers the dark side effects of a drug that turns the past into pornography and renders the present useless. A proven master of underground lit, beat fiction and narrative non-fiction, Pagan Kennedy takes on America's obsession with the idealized past with freshness, wit, and an uncanny ability to measure the pulse of post-modern culture. Pagan Kennedy is the author of seven books. The most recent, Black Livingstone, was a New York Times Notable Book and a winner of the Massachusetts Book Award. Her novel Spinsters won a Barnes & Noble Discover Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award. Her articles appear regularly in The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Spin, and Salon. |