The Memory Artists

In the tradition of Jonathan Safran Foer and Jonathan Lethem, Jeffrey Moore effortlessly juggles different voices and narrative styles to get at the very heart of what it means to remember and to forget. 
Noel Burun is a hypermnesiac synaesthete: his memory is unrelentingly exact, and he sees spoken words as vibrant explosions of colour, a sensation that often leaves him befuddled and bewildered. Adding to his frustration is his mother's slow descent into the quicksand of Alzheimer's. A man who remembers too much and a woman who remembers too little—both struggle to make sense of their worlds in a house bloated with memories.

Moore, Jeffrey

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Canada

Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain

Literary

The Extinction Club

Blood spilled in the Laurentian forests of  Quebec  has left a stain, and it's spreading. The mountain lion, red wine caribou, bald eagle, wolf and wolverine have already been wiped out, or nearly, and now hunters are turning their attention to the lucrative-and illegal- black bear market. Enter Nile Nightingale, a troubled man on the run who arrives in search of a rustic refuge. He thinks he's found it in the form of a run-down country church for sale. But his idyllic new world is turned upside down when he stumbles upon a ghastly find: a bleeding burlap sack, bound with a Christmas ribbon. Inside is the slashed and beaten body of fourteen-year-old Celeste Jonqueres...          Inspired by true events,  The Extinction Club  is a powerful and moving portrayal of wildlife plunder and of those who dare to oppose it. It is also a darkly comic tale, in which the very urban Nile and the country0smart, near-genius Celeste teach each other about life and death, love and loss.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2002) First Edition, 1st printing. Fine, unread hardcover. Clean, tight and straight. Bit of rubbing to the dustjacket, else fine in archival mylar cover. No remainder or other marks. B39

Red-Rose Chain

Contemporary

Weidenfeld

This tragicomic novel revolves around the notion of memory : one character falls into a pit of forgetfulness through Alzheimer's and tries to claw her way out, while the other, her son, suffers from hypermnesia - an inability to forget that warps and scrambles even the simplest communication. Noel Burun's remarkable memory, like that of many famous writers, artists and musicians, comes from the fact that he has synaesthesia - words bring about a kaleidoscopic rush of associated colours. When the story opens, Noel's mother is in the early throes of dementia and we learn her past through flashbacks and the crystalline reminiscences of her son, while her own present is depicted in her own confused interior monologue. Noel is resolved to help her overcome her illness and begins to secretly experiment with various homemade cures - from aromatherapy to homeopathy to chinese medicine. In fact the treatments more often have detrimental side effects such as bowel disorders or fainting and this is the comic part of the text. Also comic is the fact that he does eventually come up with a (suitably New Age) cure. Apart from a paen to memory and poetry (Mnesmosyne is the mother of the Muses), the novel is a satyric and comic literary portrait of new millennium science and alternative medicine, psyciatry and pseudo-psychiatry, art and artistic pretension.

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

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.

St. Martin's: Griffin

Believing that his destiny is printed on a page randomly torn from an encyclopedia twenty-two years earlier, Shakespeare university professor Jeremy Davenant finds his life descending into chaos after meeting the exotic Milena. 25,000 first printing.

Humor & Satire

Putnam Adult

Memory Artists

Penguin Books Canada, Limited

Blood spilled in the Laurentian forests of Quebec has left a stain, and it's spreading. The mountain lion, red wine caribou, bald eagle, wolf and wolverine have already been wiped out, or nearly, and now hunters are turning their attention to the lucrative-and illegal- black bear market. Enter Nile Nightingale, a troubled man on the run who arrives in search of a rustic refuge. He thinks he's found it in the form of a run-down country church for sale. But his idyllic new world is turned upside down when he stumbles upon a ghastly find: a bleeding burlap sack, bound with a Christmas ribbon. Inside is the slashed and beaten body of fourteen-year-old Celeste Jonqueres... 
 Inspired by true events, The Extinction Club is a powerful and moving portrayal of wildlife plunder and of those who dare to oppose it. It is also a darkly comic tale, in which the very urban Nile and the country0smart, near-genius Celeste teach each other about life and death, love and loss.

Hamish Hamilton

Here is a comprehensive look at the carving and painting techniques needed to create a beautiful and lifelike representation of the green-wing teal, one of the most colorful and easily distinguished of ducks. Master carver Jeffrey Moore starts with a preshaped, duplicated bird to simplify the rough carving process, then demonstrates the use of burning and high speed texturing equipment to achieve remarkable carving detail and realism. Detailed instructions accompany each color photograph, with variations in carving the hen and drake clearly shown and explained. Tips for carving the feathers, heads, and primaries, all easily accomplished by the average carver, are provided. Once the carving is completed, the book takes the reader through step by step airbrushing and brush painting techniques needed to complete each of the birds. Colors, painting tips, and finishing steps are all provided to help you achieve an elegant and wonderfully realistic teal.

Carving The Green-Wing Teal: Quick Tips For Hen and Drake (Schiffer Book for Carvers)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Schiffer Craft

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The Memory Artists

Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain

The Extinction Club

Red-Rose Chain

The Memory Artists

The Memory Artists

Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain

Memory Artists

The Extinction Club

Carving The Green-Wing Teal: Quick Tips For Hen and Drake (Schiffer Book for Carvers)