The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss by L.J. Davis, Oliver Sacks, Vladimir Nabokov, Julio Cortázar, Philip K. Dick, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, Edmund White, Brian Fawcett, Lawrence Shainberg, Dennis Potter, Robert Sheckley, Flann O'Brien, Steve Ericson, Geoffrey O'Brien, Jorge Luis Borges, Valentine Worth, Martin Amis, Donald Barthelme, Cornell Woolrich, Kelly Link, David Grand, Thomas Palmer, Anna Kavan, Russell Hoban, Shirley Jackson, Haruki Murakami, Thomas M. Disch, Walker Percy

432 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction essays short stories challenging medium-paced
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Jonathan Lethem is perhaps our most active literary voice mining the genre margins of our culture.  In this unique collection he creates an anthology that no one else could.  He draws on the work of such unforgettables as Julio Cortazar, who prese...

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