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The Memory Artists

Jeffrey Moore

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.71 | 1055 Users | 88 Reviews

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Title	:	The Memory Artists
Author	:	Jeffrey Moore
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	February 21st 2006 by St. Martin's Griffin (first published January 1st 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Psychology

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Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Best Novel Noel Burun has synesthesia and hypermnesia: he sees words in vibrant explosions of colors and shapes, which collide and commingle to form a memory so bitingly perfect that he can remember everything, from the 1001 stories of The Arabian Nights to the color of his bib as a toddler. But for all his mnemonic abilities, he is confronted every day with a reality that is as sad as it is ironic: his beloved mother, Stella, is stricken with Alzheimer's disease, her memory slowly slipping into the quicksands of oblivion. The Memory Artists follows Noel, helped by a motley cast of friends, on his quest to find a cure for his mother's affliction. The results are at the same time darkly funny, quirkily inventive, and very moving. Alternating between third-person narratives and the diaries of Noel and Stella, Jeffrey Moore weaves a story filled with fantastic characters and a touch of suspense that gets at the very heart of what it means to remember and forget, and that is a testament to the uplifting power of family and friendship.

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Original Title:	The Memory Artists
ISBN:	0312349254 (ISBN13: 9780312349257)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Sunburst Award Nominee for Canadian Novel (2005), Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (2005), Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Nominee (2004)

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Love the topic, not so much the book. It's a really sad book drenched in an air of hopelessness and science fiction, and reading it at the young age of 14 helped neither confidence nor passion in the field of science. On the other hand, a book like "a mango shaped space" might've been more appropriate for introduction to the topic, but this book was nevertheless fascinating.

The Memory Artists is a novel that covers many contemporary topics, through sparkling language, memorable characters, and an interesting plot line. One of the "memory artists" of the title is a character to can't forget anything, and the other is his mother, who increasingly, can't remember everything. Jeffrey Moore pulls in much of our contemporary malaise, showing us life in Montreal in this age of disconnection.

This is an amazing book. The author depicts several types of memory differences with enough neurological information for the curious but not so much that it detracted from the characters. I'd give it 4.5 stars. The plot, setting, themes, and characters were all beautifully developed despite some quirky barriers to the plot. It seemed like the book's ending was lacking the same artistry as the rest of the book.

What do you get when you put five people with different memory disorders in one house?You get The Memory Artists.Jeffrey Moores second novel plays strictly upon the idea of remembering and forgetting. He introduces the reader to a motley cast of characters, all of whom suffer from some sort of memory related issue. Immediately, we are introduced to Noel Burun, a man who has the unusual syndrome of synesthesia and hypermnesia. Accordingly, Noels ability to see words as color lends itself to his

When you finish the book, you will be thinking that its a true based story rather than a fiction, although it's what section you bought it from.

I didn't like this book at all to begin with: words like 'glabrous' and 'pullulating' were used and it felt pretentious. But I'm glad I stuck with it, because it got a whole lot better once Noel's memory-bereft mother, Stella Burun was introduced. I enjoyed the multiple viewpoints and the element of mystery about the attacks on Samira, JJ, and Norval. The denouement was satisfying, too.

An interesting look into synaesthesia. Loved the characters, but the ending was so abrupt.