Ebook {Epub PDF} Memoranda by Jeffrey Ford

Ford's symbolic view of memory and desire is as intriguing as it is haunting--though the book ends with more questions than it began.  · Jeffrey Ford is an American writer in the Fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including Fantasy, Science Fiction and Mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales/5(). The awe-inspiring historical concept of the memory palace is put to grand use in Jeffrey Ford's fascinating novel Memoranda, the sequel to his World Fantasy Award-winning New York Times Notable Book, The Physiognomy. Cley was once the greatest practitioner of the Physiognomy, a dangerous pseudoscience invented by the twisted tyrant Drachton Below/5(13).

Jeffrey Ford is a teacher and the author of The Physiognomy winner of the World Fantasy Award and a New York Times notable book of the year and Memoranda. Memoranda By Jeffrey Ford | Excerpt | ReadingGroupGuides. Excerpt Memoranda. by Jeffrey Ford. In the years since pleting a written account of the fall of the Well Built City, which told. Jeffrey Ford, Author Eos $24 (p) ISBN Following The Physiognomy (), which won a World Fantasy Award, and Memoranda (), Ford completes the trilogy with a quest novel. James Oliver Rigney Jr. (Octo - Septem), better known by his pen name Robert Jordan,"Robert Jordan" was the name of the protagonist in the Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, though this is not how the name was chosen according to a. was an American author of epic fantasy.

© Jeffrey Ford (P) Audible, Inc. What listeners say about Memoranda Average Customer Ratings. Overall. 5 out of 5 stars out of 5 Stars. Most of Memoranda has a duality to it that makes it complex and layered. Claiming that this is The Empire Strikes Back of the trilogy is an all-too easy simplification. Ford in this novel aims for something less straightforward than The Physiognomy but at the same time, it still has that frontier adventure atmosphere. Our protagonist is still out on a journey, attempting to solve the problems he comes across. Ford's symbolic view of memory and desire is as intriguing as it is haunting--though the book ends with more questions than it began.