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000 -LEADER |
fixed length control field |
03051nam a22003138i 4500 |
001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
control field |
2021041521 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
control field |
DLC |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
control field |
20220218115235.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
fixed length control field |
210823s2022 nyu 000 1 eng |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
2021041521 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9781476716763 |
Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9781476716770 |
Qualifying information |
(paperback) |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
Canceled/invalid ISBN |
9781476716787 |
Qualifying information |
(ebook) |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
Language of cataloging |
eng |
Description conventions |
rda |
Transcribing agency |
DLC |
Modifying agency |
DLC |
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
Authentication code |
pcc |
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
PS3555 .G292 |
Item number |
C36 2022 |
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
813/.54 |
Edition number |
23 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Egan, Jennifer, |
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
The candy house : |
Remainder of title |
a novel / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Jennifer Egan. |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE |
Projected publication date |
2204 |
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Scribner, |
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2022. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
pages cm |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
Content type term |
text |
Content type code |
txt |
Source |
rdacontent |
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
Media type term |
unmediated |
Media type code |
n |
Source |
rdamedia |
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
Carrier type term |
volume |
Carrier type code |
nc |
Source |
rdacarrier |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
"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 40, with four kids, restless, 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. It's 2010. 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 interlocking narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also extraordinarily moving, a testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy and redemption. 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 narrative styles-from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter and a chapter of tweets. If Goon Squad was organized like a concept album, The Candy House incorporates Electronic Dance Music's more disjunctive approach. The parts are titled: Build, Break, Drop. With an emphasis on gaming, portals, and alternate worlds, its structure also suggests the experience of moving among dimensions in a role-playing game. The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. Egan takes to stunning new heights her "deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technology-driven, image-saturated culture" (Vogue). The Candy House delivers an absolutely extraordinary combination of fierce, exhilarating intelligence and heart"-- |
Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY |
Relationship information |
Online version: |
Main entry heading |
Egan, Jennifer. |
Title |
Candy house |
Place, publisher, and date of publication |
New York : Scribner, 2022 |
International Standard Book Number |
9781476716787 |
Record control number |
(DLC) 2021041522 |