San Antonio College Library

It's an age where high tech rules supreme. Computers do all the work while humans spend their lives enjoying drug-induced fantasies. Only a handful live and work in the traditional sense - managing the few affairs that still need attention. At the center of this system is the Mnemonist, the man who directs everything that happens. But now he has reached an advanced age and must carefully choose a dreamer capable of taking over his crucial position....

"Irrationality and super-clarity are the two elements that all dreams seem to have in common. The life-like clarity causes one to overlook the rational flaws of a dream and to be swept up on its wings. Like a great work of fiction, a dream is totally convincing. Only when the grip of the irrational thrusts one into a vortex whose end is certain death does the dreamer rebel and rip away the cobwebs which bind him. The English Victorian painters whose...

... "unflinchingly explores a mushrooming tragedy that begins when a black man walks through the front door of a white-owned store in turn-of-the-century rural Tennessee ..."--Publishers Weekly.