WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1083694

Memoire truquee

In this unforgettable novel Koontz weaves a tale of madness, suspense, love, and terror from a startling and true-life psychological condition so close to home it will stun even his most seasoned readers: autophobia--fear of oneself.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

alternateName

http://schema.org/alternateName

  • "False Memory"@en
  • "False memory, 1999"@pl
  • "False memory"@pl
  • "False memory"@it

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "While struggling to help an agoraphobic friend cope, Martie Rhodes, a young video game designer, suddenly falls prey to her own traumatic autophobia, a fear of herself."
  • "Vier gewone mensen uit Californië ontdekken dat zij door een psychopatische psychiater zijn gehersenspoeld tot moordenaars."
  • "Geheugenfout. - Vier gewone mensen uit Californië ontdekken dat zij door een psychopatische psychiater zijn gehersenspoeld tot moordenaars."
  • "Een jonge vrouw in hedendaags Californië die haar aan pleinvrees lijdende vriendin regelmatig naar de psychiater vergezelt, ontwikkelt een zelfhaatpsychose; ook haar man en haar zwager raken gestoord."
  • "In this unforgettable novel Koontz weaves a tale of madness, suspense, love, and terror from a startling and true-life psychological condition so close to home it will stun even his most seasoned readers: autophobia--fear of oneself."@en
  • "Not a continuation of the Moonlight Bay series (Seize the Night and Fear Nothing) as many fans were expecting, False Memory is nonetheless just as powerful and compulsive as anything Koontz has written before. Martie Rhodes is a successful young computer games designer with a loving husband, Dusty, and a seemingly normal life. Her best friend, Susan, however, suffers from agoraphobia, or a fear of open spaces, and relies on Martie to take her to weekly therapy sessions. Suddenly and inexplicably, Martie herself begins exhibiting worrying signs of a mental disorder, fearing herself capable of inflicting great harm on her loved ones. At the same time, Dusty's brother Skeet also succumbs to irrational mental behavior and tries to throw himself from a roof. It soon becomes clear that these four characters are involved in something much more than a sinister coincidence. Koontz's great skill, as he demonstrates so well in this novel, is creating believable characters and thrusting them into seemingly impossible but--for the period of the story--completely plausible situations. The plot is as carefully layered as the most intricate orchestral compositions, and Koontz conducts the proceedings with almost unbearable tension. One of his greatest abilities as a writer, however, is tapping into the dark paranoia of society. As we approach the Millennium, and an age in which we are becoming increasingly desensitized to death and violence, Martie's fear of herself, known as autophobia, seems a terrifying warning that soon the only thing we will have left to fear is ourselves. Deeper meanings aside, this is easily one of his best thrillers. The prose moves at a breakneck speed, and the denouement will leave you with a pounding heart and chills up and down your spine. Koontz delivers exciting, boundary-breaking fiction better than anyone else in the game, and False Memory (though at times shocking and disturbing) is a perfect example of a master author in top form. --Jonathan Weir, Amazon.co.uk."@en
  • "Martie is ordinary woman with an ordinary life until one morning she develops a terrifying phobia: autophobia, fear of oneself. As Martie's condition worsens, her husband Dusty is determined to learn what triggered her illness and so encounters Dr Mark Ahriman, a leading psychiatrist, who runs a local support group for sufferers. Dusty's suspicion is aroused when he discovers that two of Mark's patients have recently committed suicide. It becomes apparent to Dusty that Mark, although a doctor, is not a healer. As Dusty comes ever closer to the truth, he too is struck by a debilitating psychological disorder even more unusual and frightening than that afflicting Martie."@en
  • "Martie develops a phobia: autophobia, fear of oneself. Her husband Dustin is determined to discover what triggered her illness. In doing so he encounters Dr Ahriman, but Dustin is suspicious, two of his patients have committed suicide."@en
  • "It's a fear more paralyzing than falling."@en
  • "In this novel the author weaves a tale of madness, suspense, love, and terror from a startling and true-life psychological condition: autophobia, fear of oneself. Martie Rhodes is a young wife, a successful video game designer, and a compassionate woman who takes her agoraphobic friend, Susan, to therapy sessions. Susan is so afraid of leaving her apartment that even these trips to the doctor's office become ordeals for both women, but with each trip a deeper emotional bond forms between them. Then one morning Martie experiences a sudden and inexplicable fear of her own, a fleeting but disquieting terror of her own shadow. The episode is over so quickly it leaves her shaken but amused. The amusement is short-lived. For as she is about to check her makeup, she realizes that she is terrified to look in the mirror and confront the reflection of her own face. As the episodes of this traumatic condition-- autophobia--build, the lives of Martie and her husband, Dustin, change drastically. Desperate to discover the reasons for his wife's sudden and seemingly inevitable descent into mental chaos, Dusty takes Martie to the renowned therapist who has been treating Susan, and tries to reconstruct the events of recent months in a frantic search for clues. As he comes closer to the shocking truth, Dusty finds himself afflicted with a condition even more bizarre and fearsome than Martie's. This is novel of the human mind's capacity to torment and destroy itself. In it the author has created a story not only of gripping fear but also of the power of love and friendship."@en
  • "In this novel the author weaves a tale of madness, suspense, love, and terror from a startling and true-life psychological condition: autophobia, fear of oneself. Martie Rhodes is a young wife, a successful video game designer, and a compassionate woman who takes her agoraphobic friend, Susan, to therapy sessions. Susan is so afraid of leaving her apartment that even these trips to the doctor's office become ordeals for both women, but with each trip a deeper emotional bond forms between them. Then one morning Martie experiences a sudden and inexplicable fear of her own, a fleeting but disquieting terror of her own shadow. The episode is over so quickly it leaves her shaken but amused. The amusement is short-lived. For as she is about to check her makeup, she realizes that she is terrified to look in the mirror and confront the reflection of her own face. As the episodes of this traumatic condition-- autophobia--build, the lives of Martie and her husband, Dustin, change drastically. Desperate to discover the reasons for his wife's sudden and seemingly inevitable descent into mental chaos, Dusty takes Martie to the renowned therapist who has been treating Susan, and tries to reconstruct the events of recent months in a frantic search for clues. As he comes closer to the shocking truth, Dusty finds himself afflicted with a condition even more bizarre and fearsome than Martie's. This is novel of the human mind's capacity to torment and destroy itself. In it the author has created a story not only of gripping fear but also of the power of love and friendship."
  • "Four patients of the same therapist develop crippling fears, revealing the terrifying ability of the mind to torment and destroy."@en
  • "Martie Rhodes falls into the clutches of a manipulative psychologist."
  • "Martie Rhodes is a successful young computer games designer with a loving husband, Dusty, and a seemingly normal life. Her best friend, Susan, however, suffers from agoraphobia, or a fear of open spaces, and relies on Martie to take her to weekly therapy sessions. Suddenly and inexplicably, Martie herself begins exhibiting worrying signs of a mental disorder, fearing herself capable of inflicting great harm on her loved ones. At the same time, Dusty's brother Skeet also succumbs to irrational mental behavior and tries to throw himself from a roof. It soon becomes clear that these four characters are involved in something much more than a sinister coincidence."@en
  • "Facing the fear of yourself can be deadly."@en
  • "Martie is taking her agoraphobic friend Susan to therapy sessions. One morning, Susan develops her own phobia, autophobia, fear of herself and is afraid of her own shadow or seeing herself in a mirror. Her husband takes her to see the therapist who has been treating Susan in a search for clues to this fear, but becomes himself afflicted with an even more bizarre condition."
  • "A woman and her husband scour the past for clues after she is gripped by an inexplicable fear of her own image."
  • "Four acquaintences mysteriously develop a rare psychological disorder ... Autophobia: fear of oneself."@en
  • "A deeply sinister and endlessly surprising tale of a rare and terrifying phobia: autophobia - fear of oneself. Martie Rhodes is a young wife (happily married to Dustin for three years), a video game designer, and a compassionate woman who takes her agoraphobic friend Carol to therapy sessions. Carol is so afraid of leaving her apartment that the trips are grim ordeals for both women - but bonding experiences as well. Then one morning Martie experiences a sudden fear of her own, a brief but disquieting terror of...her shadow. The episode it over quickly. It leaves her shaken but amused. Then, as she is about to check her makeup, she realizes she is terrified to look in the mirror and confront her own face. As the episodes of this traumatic condition - autophobia - build, the lives of Martie and her husband change drastically. Frantic to discover the trigger for her descent into hell, Dustin begins to look into the background of a respected therapist. As he comes closer to the truth about this strange and troubled healer, Dustin finds himself afflicted with a condition even more bizarre and terrifying than Martie's."
  • "The patients of a particular doctor begin developing strange and terrifying phobias."@en
  • "While struggling to help an agoraphobic friend cope, Martie Rhodes, a young video game designer, suddenly falls prey to her own traumatic autophobia, a fear of herself, and when her husband tries to uncover the roots of her problem, he comes face to facewith an enigmatic therapist and his own bizarre nightmare."
  • "A successful, well-adjusted woman's life turns into a nightmare when she develops autophobia, a fear of oneself."@en
  • "Een jonge vrouw in Californië die haar aan pleinvrees lijdende vriendin regelmatig naar de psychiater vergezelt, ontwikkelt een zelfhaatpsychose; ook haar man en haar zwager raken gestoord."
  • "BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's Odd Apocalypse.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? No fan of Dean Koontz or of psychological suspense will want to miss this extraordinary novel of the human mind?s capacity to torment?and destroy?itself. ? It?s a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It?s the one fear you cannot escape no matter where you run . . . no matter where you hide. ? It?s the fear of yourself. It?s real. It can happen to you. And facing it can be deadly. ? False Memory . . . Fear for your mind."@en
  • "Dustin Rhodes, desperate to learn why his wife, a successful video game designer, has suddenly developed autophobia--the fear of oneself, discovers the shocking truth in the person of her therapist, the respected Dr. Ahriman."

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Americké romány"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Thriller"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Translations"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Literatura grozy amerykańska"@pl
  • "Horror tales"
  • "Horror tales"@en
  • "Horror fiction"
  • "Horror fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "Falsa memoria"
  • "Falsa memoria"@it
  • "Falsa memoria"@es
  • "Falskt minne"@sv
  • "Dræbende tanker"@da
  • "Yanlış hafıza"
  • "False Memory / a novel of the human mind's capacity to torment--and destroy-- itself"
  • "Stimmen der Angst Roman"
  • "Fałszywa pamięć"
  • "Fałszywa pamięć"@pl
  • "Phovia"
  • "Mémoire truquée : roman"
  • "Ложная память"
  • "Salainen muisti"@fi
  • "Yanlış hafıza = false memory"
  • "Falešná vzpomínka"
  • "Geheugenfout"
  • "Memoire truquee"@en
  • "False memory : a novel"
  • "False memory / S"
  • "Lozhnai︠a︡ pami︠a︡tʹ"
  • "False memory"
  • "False memory"@en
  • "False Memory"
  • "False Memory"@en

workExample

http://schema.org/workExample