Memory Artists
Set in Montreal, The Memory Artists is the highly inventive story of four friends, a mother, and a doctor. Noel, who, like Liszt and Rimbaud, has synaesthesia: he sees sounds as colors. He also has a prodigious and acute memory. Noel's mother has Alzheimer's, and Noel is seeking a cure in his basement laboratory with the help of his friends: handsome, debauched Norval; childlike, Internet addict JJ; and Samira, an Arabic-Canadian former actress. As the cynical Norval works his way through an alphabet of lovers (as a performance art piece), Samira becomes the "S" in his project, causing a subtle conflict with Noel, who, secretly, is madly in love with her. Standing in the background of the story like a puppet master is Dr. Vorta, a neuropsychologist who is studying Noel's malady. Bursting with vitality, ingenious and darkly spangled with a sometimes-grim humour, the novel's fragmentary style, which includes selections from several characters' diaries, reflects the skipping-stone mind of a synaesthete. The writing is relentlessly witty and a constant delight. Norval extracts himself from a sleeping woman's limbs with "diamond-cutter caution. " JJ has the "teapot cheeks" of youth and "a preliminary scenario for a goatee. " The story is filled with detailed lore on chemistry, pharmacology, and herbology as Noel finds hints in the ancient Arabic book, A Thousand and One Nights, in his hunt for a cure to memory loss. In a lovely, touching denouement, Noel discovers the secret buried in his "pent heart. " For those who like their fiction quirky and energetic, this novel is highly recommended. --Mark Frutkin Author(s): Jeffrey Moore. Binding Hardcover. Publisher(s): Viking Canada. Label: Viking Canada.
| Fabricant: | Viking Canada |
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| Prix le plus bas (CAD): | 45,96 $ |
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| Auteur : | Jeffrey Moore |
| Format : | Hardcover |
| Marque : | Viking Canada (AHC) |
| Title : | Title J-M |
