Vintage Book Of Amnesia

An Anthology

By: Jonathan Lethem

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Paperback | 15 August 2000 | Edition Number 1

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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 presents a man caught between the ancient and modern worlds unable to say which is real; Philip K. Dick, who tells the story of a man trapped on a spaceship of the somnolent, unable to sleep and slowly losing his mind; Shirley Jackson, who takes us on a nightmarish trip across town with a young secretary; and Oliver Sacks, who presents us with an aging hippie who possesses no memory of anything that has taken place since the early seventies.

What Lethem has done is nothing less than define a new genre of literature-the amnesia story-and in the process he invites us to sit down, pick up the book, and begin to forget.

Also including: John Franklin Bardin, Donald Barthelme, Thomas M. Disch, Karn Joy Fowler, David Grand, Anna Kavan, Haruki Murakami, Flann O'Brien, Edmund White, and many others.

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Introduction	p. xiii
Dream Science	p. 3
The Night Face Up	p. 21
Other People	p. 30
Nightmare	p. 40
Memories of Amnesia	p. 56
Warm	p. 71
Soul Walker	p. 81
Cowboys Don't Cry	p. 93
The Second Coming	p. 103
Funes, His Memory	p. 119
The Black Curtain	p. 127
The Third Policeman	p. 141
Five Fucks	p. 156
Forgetting Elena	p. 176
Sarah Canary	p. 184
The Last Hippie	p. 196
Notes Toward a History of the Seventies	p. 227
Ticket to Ride	p. 237
The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds	p. 248
Geoffrey Sonnabend's Obliscence: Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter--An Encapsulation	p. 254
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon	p. 261
The Zebra-Struck	p. 280
The Squirrel Cage	p. 296
Louse	p. 311
Game	p. 321
The Affirmation	p. 326
Kleinzeit	p. 339
Days Between Stations	p. 343
"That in Aleppo Once ..."	p. 354
The Deadly Percheron	p. 364
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose	p. 385
Bibliography	p. 401
Contributors	p. 405
Permissions Acknowledgments	p. 411
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