ISBN 0-15-100091-3 (US hbk)

"Amnesia Moon , Lethem's second novel, is The Wizard of Oz remade as road noir.

"Since the war and the bombs, Hatfork, Wyoming, is a sick town, full of mutants and sexual deviants. Chaos lives in the projection booth in the abandoned Multiplex, trying to blot out his present, unable to remember his past.

"Then the local tyrant, Kellogg, reveals to him over a can of dog food in the desert that the bombs never fell. The truth is a little more complicated.

"With a fur-covered girl named Melinda, Chaos sets out on a journey, following the empty highway to the western edge of the American Nightmare. The truth, he finds, is more than a little complicated. His pursuit of a missing identity and a stolen love will pull him and Melinda deep into a kaleidoscope of broken realities." [jacket blurb, US hbk, 1995]

"A surreal journey of discovery...in a land where dreamers affect reality." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1998).

Recommended.