Man Walks Into a RoomMan Walks Into a Room
a Novel
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Book, 2003
Current format, Book, 2003, 1st Anchor Books ed, No Longer Available.Book, 2003
Current format, Book, 2003, 1st Anchor Books ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsFound wandering in the desert outside of Las Vegas, Samson Greene, a thirty-six-year-old Columbia University English professor, is discovered to have a brain tumor, but when surgery removes the tumor, leaving him with no recollection of his life after the age of twelve, he finds himself struggling to deal with a life, and a wife, he no longer recognizes. A first novel. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by <i>Esquire</i> magazine as “one of America’s best young writers.”<br><br>Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife<b>, </b>Anna<b>, </b>comes to bring him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not even his own name. The removal of a small brain tumor saves his life, but his memories beyond the age of twelve are permanently lost. <br><br>Here is the story of a keenly intelligent, sensitive man returned to a life in which everything is strange and new. An emigrant from his own life, set free from all that once defined him, Samson Greene believes he has nothing left to lose. So, when a charismatic scientist asks him to participate in a bold experiment, he agrees.<b> </b>Launched into a turbulent journey that takes him to the furthest extremes of solitude and intimacy, what he gains is nothing short of the revelation of what it means to be human.
A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by <i>Esquire</i> magazine as “one of America’s best young writers.”<br><br>Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife<b>, </b>Anna<b>, </b>comes to bring him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not even his own name. The removal of a small brain tumor saves his life, but his memories beyond the age of twelve are permanently lost. <br><br>Here is the story of a keenly intelligent, sensitive man returned to a life in which everything is strange and new. An emigrant from his own life, set free from all that once defined him, Samson Greene believes he has nothing left to lose. So, when a charismatic scientist asks him to participate in a bold experiment, he agrees.<b> </b>Launched into a turbulent journey that takes him to the furthest extremes of solitude and intimacy, what he gains is nothing short of the revelation of what it means to be human.
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