With a focus on social media, gaming, and alternate worlds, you can almost experience moving among dimensions in a role-playing game. Intellectually dazzling and extraordinarily moving, The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. 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 'externalising' memory. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. 'A dazzling feat of literary construction' VOGUEįrom 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. 'A complex, compelling read that showcases Egan's masterful storytelling' TIME PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD A fierce and exhilarating testament to the transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, privacy and redemption. The long-awaited sibling novel to Jennifer Egan's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad.

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