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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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Although the book was quite interesting because of its odd design (a mixture of first person, lab diaries, and diaries) and featured fantastic character development, I found the confusing plot was a major turn-off for me.

Touching and well written

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.

It began as a lab theorizing about synesthesia and evolved into an ode to human creativity in such an inspiring and heartbreaking way.

So different! I loved the uniqueness of the book. It is a novel, but designed to be a compilation of narrations and diary entries "written" by a neuropsychologist as if it were actually an academic work, complete with the narrator's endnotes (for once you actually need to read the endnotes!) Vorta, the doctor is a complete nut job, but you only really meet him through the endnotes and the character's discussion of him. Noel is a synesthesia and hypermnesia dealing with his mother's Alzheimer's.

This interesting book took me awhile to get into, but eventually I learned to love it. A socially awkward man with synesthesia and his few friends work together towards a cure for Alzheimers. Told mostly through diaries, newspaper articles, and lab reports the beautiful descriptions and wacky characters won me over. 2019 reading challenge: a book you bought for the coverAlphabet reading challenge: Q- Quebec

Brilliant book that plays with style on every page. THe narrotr switches voices so often that it will make you head spin, which is a great feeling when wrapping your head around this book. THe footnotes were amazingly detailed and added a great post modern comic relief to some dense material. This book will make you envious and relieved.