Storyteller Relishes Conflict Between Truth and Illusion
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › January 28, 2007
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Summary
It seems believable that a young storyteller who has spent an itinerant childhood in Japan, Brazil, Ecuador and the United Kingdom should write a novel about two young storytellers, one of them from England and displaced in Ecuador.
That is the premise of James Scudamore's splendid first novel, "The Amnesia Clinic," about Anti (short for Anthony) and Fabian, 15- year-olds in Ecuador, each of whom has a propensity for storytelling that is so strong that soon it is the basis for their relationship.See the full content of this document
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Storyteller Relishes Conflict Between Truth and Illusion
One story that is not told for a long time is about what happened to Fabian's parents, a mysterious thread that runs through the book, and the reader continues to discover different versions of it.
Scudamore call...See the full content of this document
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