Andrew's Brain Explained

Andrew's Brain
Author:E. L. Doctorow
Country:United States
Language:English
Genre:Fiction
Publisher:Random House
Pub Date:January 14, 2014
Media Type:Print, e-book
Pages:224 pages
Isbn:978-1400068814

Andrew's Brain is a novel written by E. L. Doctorow, published in 2014. It was Doctorow's last novel to appear before his death in 2015.

Plot

Andrew, from a variety of mostly unknown locations, tells the story of his life and the events that have led him to where he has ended up through musings, ramblings, and occasionally fragmented tales. With seemingly no one else in his life, Andrew speaks to a person, presumably a psychiatrist only referred to as "Doc", who often prompts Andrew further into his disjointed narrative. Between tragedies of love, thoughts about what consciousness is, and a series of bad luck incidents, Andrew's story explores the questions of how much control individuals have over their own lives and how much of life is coincidence or fate.

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