The Candy House: A Novel
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Simon & Schuster Audio , 2022.
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Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence Selected as One of Barack Obama’s Summer 2022 Reading List Picks! *Named a Best Book of 2022 So Far by The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, NPR, Oprah Daily, Real Simple, Time, Vogue, and Vulture! * Named a Best Book of 2022 by Publishers Weekly! * “A compelling read that showcases Egan’s masterful storytelling.” —Time “Dazzling.” —Vogue “Radiant, exhilarating.” —Slate “Mesmerizing…A thought-provoking examination of how and why we change.” —People From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an “inventive, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection.The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes. In the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles—from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love. “A beautiful exploration of loss, memory, and history” (San Francisco Chronicle), “this is minimalist maximalism. It’s as if Egan compressed a big 19th-century novel onto a flash drive” (The New York Times).

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eAudiobook
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Unabridged
Street Date
04/05/2022
Language
English
ISBN
9781797128412

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Egan, J., Barillas, C., Barr, T. L., Allwine, A., Tremaine, E., Beltran, K., Bittner, D., Coffey, C. H., Ali, A. A., Brill, C., Campbell, D., Boatman, M., Newbern, G., Pabon, T. A., Frazier, G., Light, A., Tonn, T., Lewis, N., Sadoski, T., Donnell, C., Newman, G., Lowman, R., Sanders, J., & Liu, L. (2022). The Candy House: A Novel (Unabridged). Simon & Schuster Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jennifer Egan et al.. 2022. The Candy House: A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jennifer Egan et al.. The Candy House: A Novel Simon & Schuster Audio, 2022.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Egan, J., Barillas, C., Barr, T. L., Allwine, A., Tremaine, E., Beltran, K. and Bittner, D. et al (2022). The candy house: a novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Egan, Jennifer, et al. The Candy House: A Novel Unabridged, Simon & Schuster Audio, 2022.

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