The Memory Ward, Jon Bassoff
The Memory Ward, Jon Bassoff
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The Memory Ward

Author: Jon Bassoff

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot, Janina Edwards, Dawn Harvey

Unabridged: 8 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/04/2025

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

From critically acclaimed author Jon Bassoff, The Memory Ward is a haunting Russian doll of a novel about one man’s attempt to discover what’s real and what isn’t …They say it’s always beautiful in Bethlam, Nevada. No place you’d rather live. The people are friendly, if a little nosy, and there’s no crime to speak of. Life is pretty perfect.But postal worker Hank Davies has started to suspect something is off in this idyllic little town. And he’s certain of that when he realizes the letters he’s been delivering are just blank pages.Hank isn’t the only one who’s noticed the oddities in Bethlam. One such person knocks on his window in the middle of the night, urging him to investigate his bedroom wall. When Hank pulls back the wallpaper, he discovers dozens of sheets of paper, full of a story that is either complete madness or unbelievable truth. As he begins looking beyond the veneer of his smiling neighbors and their white picket fences, Hank is drawn further and further into a disturbing new reality …Told in Bassoff’s lyrical and evocative style, The Memory Ward is a disquieting page-turner that examines the nature of identity, trauma, and what it means to be human.

About Jon Bassoff

Jon Bassoff is the author of ten novels, several of which have been translated into French and German. His mountain-gothic novel, Corrosion, was nominated for the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, France’s biggest crime fiction award, and his debut novel, The Disassembled Man, was recently adapted for the big screen. For his day job, Bassoff teaches high school English in Longmont, Colorado. He is a connoisseur of tequila, hot sauces, psychobilly music, and fleabag motels.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

About Janina Edwards

Janina Edwards, an Earphone Award–winning narrator, is a graduate of the acting program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

About Dawn Harvey

Dawn Harvey has been performing for as long as she has been able to walk and talk and sing. She was already a stage and film actress when she began her voice-over career and now is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator.

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Quotes

“Fans of Iain Reid will love this chilling psychological tale. Written with a timeless quality, The Memory Ward is mysterious, clever, and unnerving—a book to be read quickly that demands further thought after the final page is turned.”  Zoje Stage, USA Today bestselling author of Baby Teeth

“Bassoff’s uncanny Bethlam, Nevada, hits the map to stand toe-to-toe with eerie heavyweights Stepford, Connecticut, and Twin Peaks, Washington.” Warren Hammond, author of KOP and Denver Moon

“Half waking dream, half living nightmare, The Memory Ward is a palpitating descent into a verisimilitude of madness that could only be written by one of the very best in the game, Jon Bassoff.” Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire mystery series

“Jon Bassoff is a master of that territory where pulp becomes poetry, and crime fiction mates with horror.” Ramsey Campbell, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Ancient Images

“A highly entertaining and thought-provoking exploration of what makes a human being an individual person. It’s also a timely cautionary tale of what societies can allow to happen to their most vulnerable segments for a purported greater good.”  Criminal Element

“The Memory Ward starts out with a bit of tension and only gets faster, weirder, and more overwrought from there…Bassoff, an accomplished crime author with a knack for the strange, manages to make the narrative unique and engaging.” Gabino Iglesias, Locus

“A suspense-filled bone chiller…Promises to resonate with fans of Black Mirror.” Modern Luxury Peak magazine

“Jon Bassoff is one of the masters at mixing genres.” The Hard Word

“Bassoff delivers a tale of trauma and altered identity, and one questioning the concept of humanity itself.” The Cullman Times

“Bassoff whips up sufficient unease with his Twilight Zone setup…Blake Crouch fans will enjoy this mind-bender.”  Publishers Weekly

Awards

  • Denver Post Pick
  • Westword Pick
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