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Andrew's brain, E.L. Doctorow

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Andrew's brain, E.L. Doctorow
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Andrew's brain
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
865473984
Responsibility statement
E.L. Doctorow
Summary
A psychological tale recounts the experiences of Andrew, who confesses to an unknown recipient the memory- and truth-challenging events, loves, and tragedies that have led him to a mysterious actSpeaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times ... funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound
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