{"product_id":"the-candy-house-9781476716763","title":"The Candy House","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a \"sibling novel\" to her Pulitzer Prize- and NBCC Award-winning \u003ci\u003eA Visit from the Goon Squad\u003c\/i\u003e--an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world where memories and identities are no longer private.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Candy House\u003c\/i\u003e opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is \"one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis.\" Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or \"externalizing\" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, \"Own Your Unconscious\"--that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others--has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn spellbinding interlocking narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Intellectually dazzling, \u003ci\u003eThe Candy House\u003c\/i\u003e is also extraordinarily moving, a testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy and redemption. In the world of Egan's spectacular imagination, there are \"counters\" who track and exploit desires and there are \"eluders,\" those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles--from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter and a chapter of tweets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf \u003ci\u003eGoon Squad\u003c\/i\u003e was organized like a concept album, \u003ci\u003eThe Candy House\u003c\/i\u003e incorporates Electronic Dance Music's more disjunctive approach. The parts are titled: Build, Break, Drop. With an emphasis on gaming, portals, and alternate worlds, its structure also suggests the experience of moving among dimensions in a role-playing game. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Candy House\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. Egan takes to stunning new heights her \"deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technology-driven, image-saturated culture\" (\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eThe Candy House\u003c\/i\u003e delivers an absolutely extraordinary combination of fierce, exhilarating intelligence and heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476716763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2021 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2022 pg. 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2022 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jennifer Egan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41596187705525,"sku":"9781476716763","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e8e3b4a5-1c3d-464a-acf0-211ff2c58b3c.jpg?v=1644334222","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-candy-house-9781476716763","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}