false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1214826161m/2287677.jpg 2287677 1 With each new novel, post-modern legend Jonathan Baumbach subtly reimagines the shape of the wheel. In his latest, YOU, subtitled, Or the Invention of Memory, the narrator remembers or imagines or invents the story of a not easily defined relationship with a complex and variable woman known in the novel only as You. The style will captivate, needing no explanation as to why Baumbach s novels continue to connect with a wide variety of readers. You are warily approaching the first sentence of my new novel, not wanting to be taken unaware, or not wanting to be plunged into something from which there is no perceptible exit or perhaps both at once, separate and inseparable concerns. The opening sentence, with your unspoken consent, has edged its way into the barely remembered past. 2293884 30 11 2007 You: Or the Invention of Memory total:24|5:6|4:10|3:7|2:1|1:0| 24 93 48 9 3 7 false false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 13:42:58 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 13:45:33 -0700 2009
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