Amnesia Moon

Jonathan Lethem

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571317851
• Subtopic: Science Fiction
• Index: Literature

Jonathan Lethem, acclaimed author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, here takes the reader on a road trip through a post-apocalyptic USA.

Since the war came and the bombs fell, Hatfork, Wyoming, has been a broken-down, mutant-ridden town. Young Chaos lives in the projection booth of the abandoned multiplex cinema, trying to blot out his present, but unable to remember his past. Then, over a can of dog food, the local tyrant Kellogg reveals to Chaos that those bombs never actually fell. The truth, in fact, is a little more complicated . . .

So Chaos gets behind the wheel of an automobile and, accompanied by a fur-covered mutant female, sets out onto the empty highway for a journey to the edge of his American nightmare: in search of a missing identity and a stolen love.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Edge had the highway to himself
• He lived in a house by a lake
• Moon clutched his daughter’s hand tightly
• They brought him a meal of sandwiches and water
• They walked all night
• They loaded up the backseat
• It was a Wednesday
• There wasn’t really enough room for Chaos
• They’d fallen asleep on the couch together
• The tape was about three minutes long
• Everett remembered San Francisco
• It was raining when he woke
• He stood with Ilford
• The next morning he left at daybreak
• “Explain,” Everett commanded
• “Of course I remember Vance”
• “You were away for so long”
• He stayed in his booth for two days
• The clock was happy
• Like an explosion, they landed
• Things were different
• He approached the maze from the sky
• It was morning
• Author biography
• Copyright