theMystery.doc
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802124913 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0802124917
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Physical Description:
print
regular print
ix, 1660 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm. - Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, first edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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Subject: | Authorship -- Fiction Memory -- Fiction |
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Summary:
"Funny, highly inventive, and deeply moving, theMystery.doc is a vast, shape-shifting literary novel that reads like a page-turner. It’s a comedy, a tragedy, a big book about America. It’s unlike anything you’ve read before. Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-9/11, the book follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write the follow-up to his first novel, searching for a form that will express the world as it has become, even as it continually shifts all around him. Pop-up ads, search results, web chats, snippets of conversation, lines of code, and film and television stills mix with alchemical manuscripts, classical works of literature -- and the story of a man who wakes up one morning without any memory of who he is, his only clue a single blank document on his computer called themystery.doc. From text messages to The Divine Comedy, first love to artificial intelligence, the book explores what makes us human -- the stories we tell, the memories we hold on to, the memories we lose -- and the relationships that give our lives meaning. Part love story, part memoir, part documentary, part existential whodunit, theMystery.doc is a modern epic about the quest to find something lasting in a world where everything -- and everyone -- is in danger of slipping away." -- Provided by publisher.