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Memory

by Donald E. Westlake
Stephen R. Thorne
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Hospitalized after a liaison with another man's wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul's facing steep odds—and a bleak fate if he fails. This final, never-before-published novel by three-time Edgar Award winner Donald E. Westlake is a noir masterpiece, a dark and painful portrait of a man's struggle against merciless forces that threaten to strip him of his very identity.

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  • Release date

    April 1, 2010

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792770572
      • File size: 316469 KB
      • Duration: 10:59:18

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Donald Westlake's style adapts especially well to audio. It's not hard-boiled, but it's spare and filled with evocative description. This book is one of his earliest works and was rejected by a publisher as "too literary." The story follows a man who is beaten by the husband of his paramour and loses his memory. The listener never knows or learns anything the main character doesn't. This engaging device carries one along. The story is a mystery in the sense that the listener doesn't know what's going to happen, but there's no real crime to solve. Stephen Thorne is solid as the narrator, effectively portraying the weariness and puzzlement of the main character. He doesn't give each character a distinctive voice but differentiates each with slight changes in tone and pacing. R.C.G. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from February 1, 2010
      The career of late MWA Grand Master Westlake (1933–2009) spans 50 years with the appearance of this elegant, melancholy novel, written in the 1960s and never before published. Actor Paul Cole is on tour when he sleeps with the wrong married woman, and her husband puts him in the hospital, from which he emerges with short- and long-term memory problems. As he makes his way from the Midwest to his home in New York City, Paul struggles to remember his past and build a future while existing in limbo: unable to keep appointments with doctors or the unemployment office, meeting countless people too caught up in their own agendas or bureaucracies to help him. Lovely language and the overall discourse on the consequences of thoughtlessness make this a significant final work from a master.

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