Man Walks Into a Room
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Nicole Krauss's elegant, haunting debut, Man Walks into a Room, is a what-if novel. What if, asks Krauss, a man woke up one day and he'd forgotten everything he knows? Samson Greene is found lost in the desert near Las Vegas, memory-less thanks to a tumor "applying its arbitrary, pernicious pressure to his brain." Once the tumor is removed, he can remember his childhood up until his 12th year, but then all is blank. He returns to New York, to his wife Anna, to his life as a Columbia University English professor, but none of these things makes sense to him anymore: "Samson could dredge up no feeli
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Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Release date: 1 December 2007
ISBN-10 : 0141021152 | ISBN-13: 9780141021157
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Release date: 1 December 2007
ISBN-10 : 0141021152 | ISBN-13: 9780141021157
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