The Visit from the Goon Squad Series - Book 2
The Candy House
Read by
Allison Light,
Lucy Liu,
Colin Donnell,
Alex Allwine,
Ali Andre Ali,
Jackie Sanders,
Travis Tonn,
Griffin Newman,
Kyle Beltran,
Nicole Lewis,
Emily Tremaine,
Christian Barillas,
Tara Lynne Barr,
Chris Henry Coffey,
Timothy Andrés Pabon,
Corey Brill,
Gibson Frazier,
George Newbern,
Dan Bittner,
Danny Campbell,
Thomas Sadoski,
Rebecca Lowman,
Michael Boatman,
various narrators
Release:
04/05/2022
Runtime:
11h 12m
Unabridged
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“[A] masterpiece about searching for meaning in a crazy world.”
Entertainment Weekly
A New York Times Bestseller
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
A Kirkus Reviews Pick of 2022's Best Audiobooks
A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year
A Philadelphia Inquirer of Top Ten Books of 2022
A Slate Book Review Best Books of the Year Pick
A Time Magazine Best Book of 2022
A New Yorker Best Books of the Year Selection
An Esquire Magazine Best Book of the Year
An Entertainment Weekly Best Books of the Year
A Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year
A Harper’s Bazaar Pick for 2022
An Oprah Daily Pick of the Year's Best Books
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • SLATE • THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more!
OLIVIA WILDE to direct A24’s TV adaptation of The Candy House and A Visit from the Goon Squad!
From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an “inventive, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) speculative novel about memory, technology, privacy, and the quest for authenticity and human connection.
The Candy House 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 forty, with four kids, restless, and 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. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share those memories in exchange for access others’—has seduced multitudes.
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 interconnected narratives and narrative styles—from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving, speculative fiction testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love.
“A beautiful exploration of loss, memory, and history” (San Francisco Chronicle), “this is minimalist maximalism. It’s as if Egan compressed a big 19th-century novel onto a flash drive” (The New York Times).
ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • SLATE • THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more!
OLIVIA WILDE to direct A24’s TV adaptation of The Candy House and A Visit from the Goon Squad!
From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an “inventive, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) speculative novel about memory, technology, privacy, and the quest for authenticity and human connection.
The Candy House 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 forty, with four kids, restless, and 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. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share those memories in exchange for access others’—has seduced multitudes.
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 interconnected narratives and narrative styles—from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving, speculative fiction testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love.
“A beautiful exploration of loss, memory, and history” (San Francisco Chronicle), “this is minimalist maximalism. It’s as if Egan compressed a big 19th-century novel onto a flash drive” (The New York Times).
Release:
2022-04-05
Runtime:
11h 12m
Format:
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781797128412
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Audio
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