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The candy house, a novel, Jennifer Egan

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novels

The candy house

1259046378

Jennifer Egan

a novel

"'The candy house' opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, 'a tech demigod on a first name basis with the world.' Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with 'externalizing' memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, 'Own Your Unconscious'--which allows you to access every memory you've ever had, and to share your own in exchange for access to the memories of others--has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. ... 'The candy house' is also a testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy, and redemption."--, Dust jacket flap

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