A Spy in Amnesia

by Julian Semilian

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881471705
• ISBN13: 9781881471707
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A surrealist classic

A Spy in Amnesia is the truest, cleanest, highest and wildest manifesto on what it means to be alive since the passing of Henry Miller. Here is a runaway stagecoach full of explosive opium. Here is a metaphysical freedom rider's call to arms, a garotte made from a garter belt, a long slide off the deck of a ship during a violent storm at sea that lands you in the heart of the harem. There's not a single word of falsehood in this book. But burned into every page-as though written in blood with a dying man's last breath-is a map to Elsewhere. Set sail.

Spy into Amnesia

"A Spy in Amnesia" is an intriguing journey into the passion of a man and the restraints of a society. Through the use of letters to an imaginary ex-lover, Semilian examines society as we know it and as it ought to be. Both entertaining and provocative, philosophical and literary, the reader whirls from beginning to end, from reality to fantasy, confronted with their own view of life and how it should be expressed. Semilian's use and play of language is as fascinating as the book's content. Definitely a book for the mature reader and seeker.