Bibliograph

Amnesiascope, a novel, Steve Erickson

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Amnesiascope, a novel, Steve Erickson

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Amnesiascope

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Steve Erickson

Sub title

a novel

Summary

A washed-up novelist navigates the dreamscape of a cataclysm-ravaged Los Angeles In the apocalyptic Los Angeles of Amnesiascope, time zones multiply freely, spectral figures roam the streets, and rings of fire separate the city from the rest of the country. The narrator, a former novelist, lives in a hotel and writes film criticism for a newspaper whose offices are located in a bombed-out theater. Viv, his girlfriend, is a sexually voracious artist, and together the two are collaborating on an avant-garde pornographic film. But in this world, what's real and what's merely the conjuring of the protagonist's imagination-obsessed with dreams, movies, sex, and remembrance-is far from clear. At once outrageous and hypnotically lyrical, Amnesiascope enflames the reader's memory

Target audience

adult

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