Spilling Clarence

Paperback | 15 January 2003

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What if you could suddenly remember everything that ever happened to you, every joy and every sorrow that you had ever endured Would it be a blessing -- or a curse

This is the fate of the residents of the town of Clarence, who fall under the spell of a strange and powerful drug that unlocks their memories. The past comes flooding back without the buffer of time, and the townspeople, young and old, find themselves awash in their own reminiscences -- of love and death, of war and childhood, of happiness they've experienced, and sins they've committed.

Beautifully rendered with a light comic touch, this bittersweet novel is about more than the sum of its beguiling parts. Spilling Clarence explores our relationship with our histories, the seductive pull of regret, the unreliability of memory, and the bliss of forgetting. A universe peopled by exquisitely drawn characters, Spilling Clarence is a moving introduction to the impressive talents of an exciting new writer.

Industry Reviews

"Warm, playful and magical... No scalpel can touch the truths Ursu locates." - PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER "SPILLING CLARENCE...has competence and style - light, wry, dreamlike." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Anne Ursu's writing is effervescent. She manages to fill her sentences with so much light and life that every page in SPILLING CLARENCE is a dazzling event." - Anne Patchett, author of Bel Canto and The Magician's Assistant "Engaging - better than eavesdropping on a patient's tale to his analyst." - USA Today "Wonderfully original... This whimsical, bittersweet debut suggests that he stories of our lives are what save us." - US Weekly (BEST OF THE WEEK)

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