'A thrilling, endlessly stimulating work that demands to be read and reread' * Kirkus Reviews * 'Fans of A Visit from the Goon Squad will not want to miss this new novel' * jNews * 'A complex, compelling read that showcases Egan's masterful storytelling' * Time * Egan takes her "deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technology-driven, image-saturated culture" (Vogue) to stunning new heights and delivers a fierce and exhilarating testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy and redemption. With a focus on social media, gaming, and alternate worlds, you can almost experience moving among dimensions in a role-playing game. The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. Intellectually dazzling and extraordinarily moving. 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 styles-from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. In spellbinding linked narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious-that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others-has seduced multitudes. He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. This is a big subject and a lot could go awry, but she is so clever and manages to pull this tale together in such a way, we can but marvel at her reach.įrom one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time comes an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no longer our own-featuring characters from A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Speculating on a corporate's capacity to upload consciousness ostensibly for medical benefit, the story is modern and pacy with well drawn characters. So Good!!! Jennifer Egan weaves some Goon Squad characters into a wonderful extended web of connection.
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