![]() ![]() ![]() But this book is not about that technology. As the technology develops it allows people to share their memories on line and explore different events from others’ points of view. ![]() Bix is looking for inspiration for the next big thing and through a range of circumstances finds it – a technology that allows people to upload their memories to an external device which is marketed as “Own Your Unconscious”. While music was the uniting theme in the original book, this one ties things together with considerations of memory and connectedness.Įgan opens with Bix Bouton, a multimillionaire who made his money from commercialising the internet. The Candy House revisits the same characters and their children and hangers on and is delivered in the same connected short story style that jumps around in time and occasionally plays with different structural forms and narrative styles. Jennifer Egan returns to the world of her Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad in her new novel The Candy House. ![]()
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