Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Jake has Alzheimer's.As the disease takes hold of him, the key events of his life shift, and what until recently seemed solid fact melts into surreal imaginings. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison and he is about to lose his past. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty. 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. The Wilderness: A Novel Samantha Harvey Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Fiction - 384 pages 7 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content. 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. 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 become increasingly elusive and unreliable. Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison.

He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past.

Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be.

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.

The wilderness by samantha harvey