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The Wilderness (2011)

Tekijä: Samantha Harvey

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It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past, for Jake has Alzheimer's. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold on to his personal story, to his memories and identity, but they are becoming increasingly elusive and unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? What went so wrong in his life? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what exactly do they mean? As Jake, assisted by 'poor Eleanor', a childhood friend with whom for some unfathomable reason he seems to be sleeping, fights the inevitable dying of the light, the key events of his life keep changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until recently seemed solid fact is melting into surreal dreams or nightmarish imaginings. Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the wreckage? Beauty, perhaps? The memory of love? Or nothing at all? From the first sentence to the last, The Wilderness holds us in its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty.… (lisätietoja)

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This is the story of Jake, 65 year old Jake, whose wife has died, whose son is in prison, whose daughter ..... well, Jake has Alzheimers, and we tumble with him into a tangle of reminiscence, misleading timelines and confusion, as like him, we try to make sense of his new helplessness and puzzlement about the fates of those he holds dear.

This is a wonderfully imagined book, which gave me real insight (and fears) into an existence entirely dominated by unreliable memories, whether of mothers, lovers, or where to store the coffee cups. Here is a man who was once an architect with vision, now reduced to dependency and frustration.

Beautifully written, it had me gripped till the last page. (

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Margaret09 | Apr 15, 2024 |

While the characters in this novel do in fact spend time in the wilderness. The title is probably more a metaphor from what Alzheimer's has done to Jake, the narrators mind. He wanders here and there, in both time and space, trying to recall the people and events in in his life. Sadly, for both him and the reader, Jake is hopelessly lost. Throughout the novel he wanders farther and farther into the wilderness and in the end there is no escape for the narrator. Thankfully for the reader, the end is an escape from having to muddle along with Jake in his futile attempts at making sense of his life. (

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kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 |

Chopping down trees
The Wilderness is a novel about Alzheimer's and like Lisa Genova's 'Still Alice', told from the perspective of the sufferer. As well as being similar in subject matter, they are both similar in the fact that they are both first novels. And they are both good.

I was more impressed however with "Still Alice". I felt that by bringing in the themes of Jewishness and Jewish identity, the loss of a child and the effects of adulatory, that Harvey distracted from what was the meanderings and loss of memory due to Alzheimer's and what was the result of selective memory due to perceived guilt.

Nevertheless "The Wilderness" is worth reading, and the last chapters in particular evoke what must be the black void that progressively over the doomed Alzheimer's brain.

I recommend this book for anyone who has friend or family suffering from this sad disease, or any student of cognition or memoryS (

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kjuliff | Feb 9, 2023 |

Jake narrates this book, and through this narration we see and experience his descent into Alzheimer's disease. First he is forgetful and sometimes confused. He retires from his job as an architect. He gets lost walking his dog. he overfeeds his dog. He forgets where his wife, mother, daughter and son are. And then he forgets who he is.

I listened to this, and enjoyed Sean Barrett's narration. I did often find myself confused--which, I think, is the point? I suspect Harvey was attempting to showcase that confusion, and on audio it certainly worked for me. I did find this a little too long (10:45:00) for me, it was slow and repetitive. But then Jake find time very confusing at the end of the book also. So an interesting experiment, perhaps a little too well done.

It's also sad and painful--first as Jake realizes there is a problem, then as he begins to forget there is a problem, then as he desperately tries to cling to his memories of his family and Elena and his dog. And then he looses those too. (

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Dreesie | Sep 17, 2022 |

4 stars more for the way she wrote a first-person account of someone whose mind is deteriorating from Alzheimer's than from the plot which was probably around 3 stars. (

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In amongst a sea of events and names that have been forgotten, there are a number of episodes that float with striking bouyancy to the surface. There is no sensible order to them, nor connection between them. He keeps his eye on the ground below him, strange since once he would have turned his attention to the horizon or the sky above, relishing the sheer size of it all. Now he seeks out miniatures with the hope of finding comfort in them: the buildings three thousand feet below, the moors so black and flat that they defy perspective, the prison and grounds, men running in ellipses around a track, the stain of suburbia.

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It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past, for Jake has Alzheimer's. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold on to his personal story, to his memories and identity, but they are becoming increasingly elusive and unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? What went so wrong in his life? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what exactly do they mean? As Jake, assisted by 'poor Eleanor', a childhood friend with whom for some unfathomable reason he seems to be sleeping, fights the inevitable dying of the light, the key events of his life keep changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until recently seemed solid fact is melting into surreal dreams or nightmarish imaginings. Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the wreckage? Beauty, perhaps? The memory of love? Or nothing at all? From the first sentence to the last, The Wilderness holds us in its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty.

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