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From one of the crucial celebrated writers of our time comes an “creative, effervescent” (Oprah Every day) novel concerning the reminiscence and quest for authenticity and human connection.
The Sweet Home opens with the staggeringly good Bix Bouton, whose firm, Mandala, is so profitable that he’s “a kind of tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a primary title foundation.” Bix is forty, with 4 children, stressed, and determined for a brand new thought, when he stumbles right into a dialog group, largely Columbia professors, one in every of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” reminiscence. Inside a decade, Bix’s new expertise, “Personal Your Unconscious”—which permits you entry to each reminiscence you’ve ever had, and to share your reminiscences in trade for entry to the reminiscences of others—has seduced multitudes.
On the earth of Egan’s spectacular creativeness, there are “counters” who observe and exploit wishes and there are “eluders,” those that perceive the worth of taking a chew of the Sweet Home. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative types—from omniscient to first particular person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Sweet Home can also be a shifting testomony to the tenacity and transcendence of human eager for connection, household, privateness, and love.
“A fantastic exploration of loss, reminiscence, and historical past” (San Francisco Chronicle), “that is minimalist maximalism. It’s as if Egan compressed an enormous Nineteenth-century novel onto a flash drive” (The New York Instances).
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A New York Instances bestseller and named one of many Finest Books of the Yr by NPR, Esquire, Vogue, The Washington Publish, The Guardian, and USA TODAY “Egan’s first foray into historic fiction makes you overlook you’re studying historic fiction in any respect” (Elle)
Writer : Scribner (March 7, 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 368 pages
ISBN-10 : 1476716773
ISBN-13 : 978-1476716770
Merchandise Weight : 2.31 kilos
Dimensions : 5.25 x 1 x 8 inches
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