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The Jamais Vu Papers

Did you ever get the feeling you've NEVER been here before? This lively tale of a quest for jamais vu, has maintained a following for over two decades. Real-life people who take part in the adventure include Daniel C. Dennett, Tom Robbins, Fred Alan Wolf, Paul Krassner, Fred Chappell, John Brockman, Maria De Cespedes, Timothy Leary, and Jamake Highwater.

About the original edition from Harmony Books/Crown:

“A playful romp through all the theoretical realities of current scientific thought.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A fresh, experimental novel... ” —Publisher’s Weekly

“A witty, unconventional exploration of reality.” —Booklist

The fictional cast of Jamais Vu includes a bored entity called Llixgrijb, the celebrated neuroscientist, Imogene Savonarola, a secret society, a cut-rate Venice Beach shaman, a demented deconstructionist scholar, and the elderly ladies of The Elmblight, Ohio, Book Club and Sewing Circle, who in the course of reading The Jamais Vu Papers manage to become a part of the story, threatening to disrupt the fabric of reality.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 327
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780517575130
  • Release date
  • 1991