Amnesia Moon Contributor(s): Lethem, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 015603154X ISBN-13: 9780156031547 Publisher: Ecco Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: August 2005 Annotation: The much-anticipated second novel from the author of Gun, with Occasional Music. Since the war and the bombs, Hatfork, Wyoming, is a broken-down, mutant-ridden town. Young Chaos lives in a projection booth therem trying to blot out his present, unable to remember his past. Then the local tyrant, Kellog, reveals to him over a can of dog food that the bombs never fell. The truth is a little more complicated. . . . |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Apocalyptic & Post-apocalyptic - Fiction | Science Fiction - Humorous - Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2004056918 |
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.36" W x 8.05" L (0.67 lbs) 256 pages |
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Publisher Description: In Jonathan Lethem's wryly funny novel, we meet a young man named Chaos, who's living in a movie theater in post-apocalyptic Wyoming, drinking alcohol, and eating food out of cans. It's an unusual and at times unbearable existence, but Chaos soon discovers that his post-nuclear reality may have no connection to the truth. So he takes to the road with a girl named Melinda in order to find answers. As the pair travels through the United States they find that, while each town has been affected differently by the mysterious source of the apocalypse, none of the people they meet can fill in their incomplete memories or answer their questions. Gradually, figures from Chaos's past, including some who appear only under the influence of intravenously administered drugs, make Chaos remember some of his forgotten life as a man named Moon. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lethem, Jonathan: - JONATHAN LETHEM is the author of several novels, including Motherless Brooklyn; The Fortress of Solitude;Gun, with Occasional Music; and Dissident Gardens. |
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