A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE of the TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR by THE NEW YORK TIMES * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * SLATE* THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER * Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more! OLIVIA WILDE to direct A24's TV adaptation of THE CANDY HOUSE and A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD! From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an âinventive, effervescentâ (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 âone of those tech demi-gods with whom weâre all on a first name basis.â 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 âexternalizingâ memory. Within a decade, Bixâs new technology, âOwn Your Unconsciousââwhich allows you access to every memory youâve ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of othersâhas seduced multitudes. In the world of Eganâs spectacular imagination, there are âcountersâ who track and exploit desires and there are âeluders,â those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative stylesâfrom 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. âA beautiful exploration of loss, memory, and historyâ (San Francisco Chronicle), âthis is minimalist maximalism. Itâs as if Egan compressed a big 19th-century novel onto a flash driveâ (The New York Times).
The Candy House: A Novel
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