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Man Walks Into a Room - Nicole Krauss
Man Walks Into a Room
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A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by Esquire magazine as “one of America’s best young writers.”Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to bring him home,... show more
A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by Esquire magazine as “one of America’s best young writers.”Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to bring him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not even his own name. The removal of a small brain tumor saves his life, but his memories beyond the age of twelve are permanently lost. Here is the story of a keenly intelligent, sensitive man returned to a life in which everything is strange and new. An emigrant from his own life, set free from all that once defined him, Samson Greene believes he has nothing left to lose. So, when a charismatic scientist asks him to participate in a bold experiment, he agrees. Launched into a turbulent journey that takes him to the furthest extremes of solitude and intimacy, what he gains is nothing short of the revelation of what it means to be human.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780385721912 (0385721919)
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 248
Edition language: English
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elisas8
elisas8 rated it
4.0 Man Walks Into a Room
this book is gorgeous. i absolutely loved the first third for both the writing and the story, then the story sort of fell off a bit for me. it picked up with the last third. but the writing. the writing never fell off at all. from beginning to end it is just superb. and as to the story - i was...
afeministreviews
afeministreviews rated it
2.0 Man Walks Into a Room
A book better suited for someone of another mind. Or, perhaps, perfectly suited for me: for I do not forget what I should, and invented what should have been buried.Samson was not someone you rooted for. Anna, his forlorn wife, and Donald, his aged pal, were the only sympathetic characters in this d...
Bibliophilic Monologues
Bibliophilic Monologues rated it
3.0 Man Walks Into a Room
I read her History of Love and was blown away by the sheer poetry of her words so I decided to try this out. This was an earlier work and while it does deal with some of the more interesting aspects of memory and human relationships, I felt that it lacked direction and drama. I was moved to empathiz...
audreyhawkins
audreyhawkins rated it
If I hadn't read History of Love, I probably would have given this book four stars. And if I could give half-stars, I would give it three and a half. Because it's very tenderly written, and really very good, but her second novel spoiled me for this one. I have high hopes for her third! When is that ...
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