Man Walks into a Room - Hardcover

Krauss, Nicole

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385503997 ISBN 13: 9780385503990

Publisher: Doubleday, 2002

Synopsis

Found wandering in the desert outside of Las Vegas, Samson Greene, a thirty-six-year-old Columbia University English professor, is discovered to have a brain tumor, but when surgery removes the tumor, leaving him with no recollection of his life after the age of twelve, he finds himself struggling to deal with a life, and a wife, he no longer recognizes. A first novel.

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Review:

"Casually dazzling . . . thoroughly riveting. (A)" --Entertainment Weekly

"[M]ysterious and compelling. . . . Krauss brings to her work a poet's gift for seizing upon small but potent details. . . . [A] novel that . . . is hard to forget." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"By turns creepy, witty, austere, and vibey. . . . A major contribution to the art of collective obliviousness, a lonely meditation on the nature of memory and loss." --Esquire

"[G]reat nuance and sophisticated prose that seduces you with its cadences. . . . You'll savor the last page--and be hungry for future work from this talented author." --The Washington Post Book World

"A provocative first novel. . .beautifully written, intellectually engaging. . .Krauss has a remarkable feel for what is ultimately unfathomable."-Chicago Tribune

"[A] deft comedy of unfamiliarity... [A] lucid consideration of the metaphysics of mind-shuffling... Krauss celebrates the anything-but-simple art of human connection." -San Francisco Chronicle

"A meditative debut novel about the pleasures and dangers of forgetting. . .a chilling addition to the annals of amnesia lit." -The Village Voice

"A deeply philosophical novel, one that strikes upon the nagging paradoxes of modern life. . .With the character of Samson Greene, Nicole Krauss puts a human face on these concerns, and-in prose that shimmers with intelligence-tells us his potent and memorable story." -The Sun-Sentinel

"Krauss's work is both dreamy and precise, direct and mysterious, like a more austere Ellen Gilchrist or Ian McEwan." -Bookforum

"Memory and the ramifications of losing it are explored with all the precision of a CAT scan. . . . Charges bravely into a tangle of difficult questions." -San Diego Union-Tribune

"An evocative, finely written first novel that is a true work of fiction." -A.M. Homes

"Unique. . . . Intriguing. . . . It is impossible to read this book without wondering what you would do in the same situation; that reason alone is enough to pick it up." -The Denver Post

"Ambitious, cohesive, intelligent, precise and accomplished. . . . Remarkably fresh. . . . Everything in this novel works." -The Raleigh News & Observer

"An incisive novel of self-invention." -Details

"A sharp, impressive first novel that leaves one looking forward to her next outing." -Santa Fe New Mexican

"Nicole Krauss, with this remarkably felt, sharp-witted debut novel, strides into the forecourt of American letters." -Susan Sontag

About the Author:

Nicole Krauss graduated from Stanford, and went on to receive degrees from Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute in London. Her criticism has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and Partisan Review. She has been a finalist for the Yale Younger Poet’s Prize, and her poetry has appeared in publications such as The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Doubletake. She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0385503997
• ISBN 13: 9780385503990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248