Amnesia

by Douglas Anthony Cooper

Book Overview

As erotic and intense as Damage, this acclaimed Canadian novel makes its much-awaited American debut. This story within a story--told by a stranger to a city archivist on his way to his own wedding--tells of an astonishing family and a woman, confined to an asylum, who casts a spell all her own.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562827480
• ISBN13: 9781562827489
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Hyperion Books
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

If you've only read Milrose, you must read this

I came across Cooper via his Young Adult novel, Milrose Munce and the Den of Professional Help. Which I LOVE. Of course, Amnesia is radically different, in almost every way. It is equally wonderful, however.

Psych/Thrill

Prepare to use your noodle as you enter the many rooms of Mr. Cooper! A deeply philosophical and intense study of nuerotic/erotic/psychotic animal man. While perusing this fine novel, I couldn't help but feel like I was being used, fooled into the hijinx of the main character. If you have ever questioned the correlation between family and fate, I urge you to find this book!

Disturbing and compelling

Like a rotted tooth or a troubling sore I return to this book. Scrape aside the scab of human suffering and Cooper finds the sore beneath. Enigmatic and esoteric, he delivers the knock out punch when least expected. As a long time fan of Eco and Borges, I appreciated Cooper's craft and touch upon his work when I get a chance. This is not an exit.

Compelling and morose.....dark secrets revealed.

I read this book about two years ago and was utterly facinated with the books premise and characterization. The mood is evocative, anything seems possible, if not likely. A fantastic Canadian writer, an iconoclast with dark vision.

I've read it three times.

Amnesia is aptly named. Reading it, you feel like you yourself have forgotten something integral. It moves at a deadly, feverish pace, twisting itself out of recognition, becoming something more than a novel. Just as Torontois an organic city within the book, the book itself is organic. It grows into and out of itself. It finds its way into your life.