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“A writer of dazzling gifts and boundless imaginative energy.”-Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker Doctorow is a national treasure, and I mean this in a very specific sense: He has rewarded us, these forty-five years, with a vision of ourselves, as a people, a vision possessed of what I might call ‘aspirationalverve’-he sees us clearly and tenderly, just as we are, but also sees past that-to what we might, at our best, become.”-George Saunders Andrew’s Brain is a surprising turn and a singular achievement in the canon of a writer whose prose has the power to create its own landscape, and whose great topic, in the words of Don DeLillo, is “the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history.” Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times-funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster. DOCTOROW for a discussion of his new novel, Andrew's Brain, in conversation with CHRISTOPHER LYDON. Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome E.L. Those who bought tickets in person or over the phone can have their tickets refunded in the bookstore. Those who bought tickets online will be automatically refunded. Doctorow sends his regrets that he is unable to travel to Boston.