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Noel Burun has hypermnesia and synaesthesia: his memory is unrelentingly exact and when people speak he sees their words as vibrant explosions of colour, often leaving him befuddled and bewildered. His mother Stella, on the other hand, is slowly sinking into the quicksand of Alzheimer's. A man who remembers too much, and a woman who remembers too little, both struggle to make sense of their worlds in a house bloated with memories. Norval is Noel's double: a one-time novelist and full-time Lothario whose memory is tainted by an unfinished love story. He, along with Samira, who is trying to escape a former identity, and JJ-who is trapped by nostalgia for his childhood, all have a role to play in Noel's sometimes heartbreaking, and often hilarious quest to find a cure for his mother's condition. The Memory Artists is the outstanding, hilarious second novel from a writer whose work is so "full of quirks and quick-turns, wit and erudition" The Guardian that readers will find it impossible to put down.

About the Author :
Born in Montreal, Jeffrey Moore was educated at the University of Toronto and the Sorbonne. He works as a translator and also lectures at the University of Montreal and Concordia University.

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the story is unforgettably human...[Moore] leaves the reader spellbound. - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY (22.8.04) - Samantha Boyce Althought Moore tantalisingly leaves many questions unanswered, all the hallmarks of his fiction are here. They include an ability to create engaging characters, and a fine balance of warmth, insight and eviscerating humour. - iNDEPENDENT (27.8.04) - Julie Wheelwright Jeffrey Moore uses Noel's genius and synaesthesia to offer beautiful descriptions of other luridly coloured (and memory dysfunctional) characters, as well as his experience of his mother's disease to portray the agony of watching a loved one's inevitable decline. He also finds time to delve into the sometimes murky world of medical research and comment on the role of medicine as an interface between science and art...wonderfully intense. - THE LANCET (4.9.04) - Lindsay Banham Jeffrey Moore's second novel is a model of inventiveness...Parts of the novel are very moving. The excerpts from Stella's and Noel's diaries, as Alzheimer's takes its hold, and the depictions of Stella's condidtion, show how the disease kills two people. - TLS (17.9.04) - Alan White Jeffrey Moore presents us with a truly bizarre group of characters engaged in incredible pursuits. He mixes straight narrative, overseen by a rather sinister Svengali-like professor of neurology, with diary entries, newspaper rep


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780297607984
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Weight: 715 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0297607987
  • Publisher Date: 12 Aug 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 35 mm
  • Width: 170 mm


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