The candy house / Jennifer Egan.
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TextPublisher: London : Corsair, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 334 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472150936; 1472150937Subject(s): Information technology -- Fiction | Businesspeople -- Fiction | Memories -- Fiction | Memory transfer -- FictionGenre/Form: Science fiction.Summary: It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's 40, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalising' memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious – that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others – has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. In spellbinding linked narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F EGA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111083944379 |
It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's 40, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalising' memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious – that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others – has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. In spellbinding linked narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades.
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