false 3479060 2 A gripping literary thriller from an exciting new voice in fiction. Hailed as "one to watch" by the UK's Telegraph, Sam Taylor is one of the most imaginative and innovative young writers at work today. With The Amnesiac, his United States debut, he incorporates a murder mystery and a forgotten manuscript into an exhilarating and intelligent novel. When twenty-nine-year-old James Purdew returns to England from his home in Amsterdam, it is to discover what happened during three earlier years of his life that he cannot recall. What he finds, in an old house with a tragic history, is a nineteenth-century manuscript that begins to seem less and less like a work of fiction and more like the key to his own lost past. Memory and amnesia, fiction and reality, destiny and randomness, heaven and hell all converge to form an engrossing gothic story that is sure to appeal to fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind. 3520389 24 6 2008 The Amnesiac total:181|5:16|4:54|3:63|2:37|1:11| 181 570 407 61 3 2 false false Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 06:50:52 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 07:29:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 5 false false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 22:37:56 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 12:33:43 -0700 2009 pre: Found in a rain-wilted box on the curb, and I don't know one single thing about it. Very exciting!

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The back blurb says something about how it's a murder mystery with no murder, a thriller without car chases, and a sci-fi without aliens. I love all three genres, and I really enjoyed how this book combined them. I had a great time trying to figur...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Jul 09 06:56:56 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 12:48:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Aug 04 13:26:54 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 13:29:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 15:54:24 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 08:59:54 -0700 2009
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