The Amnesia Clinic
$46.12
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2007
Summary
Rich in South American color, this cleverly crafted novel deals with storytelling itself – the motivations for spinning a yarn and the consequences of taking a tale too far.
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.
Anti, a quiet English boy living in Quito, Ecuador, strikes up a friendship with flamboyant classmate Fabian, who is everything Anti isn’t – handsome, athletic, and popular. What’s more, he lives with his rakish Uncle Suarez, while Anti is stuck in the dull ex-pat worl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099494225 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099494221 |
| Author: | James Scudamore |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2007 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
An inventive debut
An inventive debut * Herald *
Scudamore has produced a clever, witty and believable debut. A fantastic read – Caroline Gibb * Scotsman *
A polished debut… Turns the tables on both characters and readers as imagination segues into dangerous reality * Guardian *
Scudamore has fun blurring the edges of truth and fiction, creating fantastic and colourful stories within stories – Laurence Phelan * Independent on Sunday *
Bewitching…Highly recommended. Scudamore has talent to burn – Matt Thorne * Sunday Telegraph *
A wonderful debut - witty, polished, fluent and effortlessly entertaining – Hilary Mantel
A nostalgic, compelling adventure laced with black humour * Time Out *
A compulsively readable novel about the seductiveness of storytelling… Both his characters and the electrifying manner in which Scudamore writes about Ecuador demonstrate the appeal as well as the danger of any fabulist’s capacity for wonder * Literary Review *
About The Author
James Scudamore
James Scudamore is the author of the novels Wreaking, Heliopolis, and The Amnesia Clinic. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award and been nominated for the Costa First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Man Booker Prize.
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