Man Walks Into a Room

Man Walks Into a Room
Author(s)	Nicole Krauss
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	2002

Man Walks Into a Room, published in the United States by Doubleday on May 1, 2002,^[1] is the first novel by American writer Nicole Krauss.

A meditation on memory and personal history, solitude and intimacy, the novel was critically acclaimed,^{[2] [1]} won praise from Susan Sontag and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. The movie rights to the novel were optioned by Richard Gere.

Set in 1957 and the present day, the novel tells the story of Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, who is found wandering in the Nevada desert with no memory of his previous life.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Gillian Flynn (August 2, 2002). "Man Walks Into a Room". ew.com Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,331430,00.html. Retrieved July 16, 2011. 
2. ^ Joy Press (May 21, 2002). Living in Oblivion,Village Voice, Retrieved May 14, 2011. "Krauss is a fluent, thoughtful writer who takes on a lot of complex ideas and rarely loses her grip on them... Man Walks Into a Room is a chilling addition to the annals of amnesia lit. It's a novel that grapples with the ephemeral experience of being human and the realization that we create a lifetime of memories that vanish when we do".