The Amnesiac
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
The Amnesiac
By (Author) Sam Taylor
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st June 2008
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
400
Width 127mm, Height 199mm, Spine 25mm
315g
Description
James Purdew is quietly obsessed with his own past - in particular three years of his life, about which he remembers nothing. So he travels back to the city of H, where he lived during those years, and finds a familiar house, now derelict. Stripping the wallpaper from one of the rooms, James discovers the first chapter of Confessions of a Killer, a 19th-century thriller, which seems to offer clues to a tragedy that took place in the house many years before, and one which James feel inexorably linked to . . . A journey into a mysterious world of fiction and reality, The Amnesiac is a compelling novel by one of Britain's most innovative young storytellers.
Reviews
"'The Amnesiac is an original, derivative, exasperating, tender triumph... it announces his arrival as one to watch.' Daily Telegraph"
Author Bio
Sam Taylor was born in 1970 and is the former pop culture correspondent for the Observer. He lives in France with his young family.
