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Overview
Caroline Bohentin, Joe McLaren, and Robbie Brekke meet at a fashionable private hospital where each has signed up for a new -- expensive and exclusive -- procedure: Previous Life Access Surgery. This procedure removes barriers in the human brain and allows patients to recall memories from all of their previous incarnations throughout human history. But the memories are not under conscious and willful control. After the operation, each patient must begin his or her journey into the past with moments of discovery and surprise, whose meaning and significance are often unclear.Meanwhile, in the outside world, which is ravaged by plagues that destroy the body's immune defenses, a crisis is building, both medically and politically. The mutated plague virus is destroying people's memories at an ever-increasing rate. And only those who have had the surgery seem to be immune.
As Caroline, Joe, and Robbie begin to remember flashes of previous lives, it becomes more and more evident that they are somehow connected to each other and that their connection has fateful implications for the entire future of the human race.
Editorials
Library Journal
A cynical lawyer suffering from multiple sclerosis, a young woman trying to escape the tragedies of her past, and a charming con man searching for easy money find their lives--past and present--inextricably linked through a radical medical procedure known as Previous Life Access Surgery. Set in a grim future marked by virulent genetic plagues, repressive protective legislation, and a dearth of hope, the latest novel by the author of An Alien Light (LJ 12/87) offers an imaginative, wholistic approach to the problems of a psychically and environmentally starving world. Highly recommended.Book Details
Published
July 1, 1991
Publisher
Avon Books (Mm)
Pages
320
Format
Paperbound
ISBN
9780380710157