The Wilderness

The Wilderness
ISBN-10
0307454770
ISBN-13
9780307454775
Series
The Wilderness
Category
Fiction
Pages
371
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
Anchor
Author
Samantha Harvey

Description

With his memories slowly eroding thanks to the ravages of Alzheimer's, Jake Jameson, a sixty-five-year-old architect on the verge of retirement, struggles to preserve his sense of identity by building stories about his feelings and the events of his life, unaware that even his clearest recollections may not be true. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.

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