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Memoirs and Misinformation

A novel

A novel

A novel

A novel

By Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon

By Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon

By Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon

By Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon

By Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon

By Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon

By Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon
Read by Jeff Daniels

By Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon
Read by Jeff Daniels

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Jul 14, 2020 | ISBN 9780593293706

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    About Memoirs and Misinformation

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    “None of this is real and all of it is true.” –Jim Carrey

    Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he’s an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege–but he’s also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even . . . getting fat? He’s tried diets, gurus, and cuddling with his military-grade Israeli guard dogs, but nothing seems to lift the cloud of emptiness and ennui. Even the sage advice of his best friend, actor and dinosaur skull collector Nicolas Cage, isn’t enough to pull Carrey out of his slump.

    But then Jim meets Georgie: ruthless ingénue, love of his life. And with the help of auteur screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, he has a role to play in a boundary-pushing new picture that may help him uncover a whole new side to himself–finally, his Oscar vehicle! Things are looking up!

    But the universe has other plans.

    Memoirs and Misinformation is a fearless semi-autobiographical novel, a deconstruction of persona. In it, Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon have fashioned a story about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, our “one big soul,” Canada, and a cataclysmic ending of the world–apocalypses within and without.

    About Memoirs and Misinformation

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    “None of this is real and all of it is true.” –Jim Carrey

    Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he’s an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege–but he’s also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even . . . getting fat? He’s tried diets, gurus, and cuddling with his military-grade Israeli guard dogs, but nothing seems to lift the cloud of emptiness and ennui. Even the sage advice of his best friend, actor and dinosaur skull collector Nicolas Cage, isn’t enough to pull Carrey out of his slump.

    But then Jim meets Georgie: ruthless ingénue, love of his life. And with the help of auteur screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, he has a role to play in a boundary-pushing new picture that may help him uncover a whole new side to himself–finally, his Oscar vehicle! Things are looking up!

    But the universe has other plans.

    Memoirs and Misinformation is a fearless semi-autobiographical novel, a deconstruction of persona. In it, Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon have fashioned a story about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, our “one big soul,” Canada, and a cataclysmic ending of the world–apocalypses within and without.

    About Memoirs and Misinformation

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    “None of this is real and all of it is true.” –Jim Carrey

    Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he’s an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege–but he’s also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even . . . getting fat? He’s tried diets, gurus, and cuddling with his military-grade Israeli guard dogs, but nothing seems to lift the cloud of emptiness and ennui. Even the sage advice of his best friend, actor and dinosaur skull collector Nicolas Cage, isn’t enough to pull Carrey out of his slump.

    But then Jim meets Georgie: ruthless ingénue, love of his life. And with the help of auteur screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, he has a role to play in a boundary-pushing new picture that may help him uncover a whole new side to himself–finally, his Oscar vehicle! Things are looking up!

    But the universe has other plans.

    Memoirs and Misinformation is a fearless semi-autobiographical novel, a deconstruction of persona. In it, Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon have fashioned a story about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, our “one big soul,” Canada, and a cataclysmic ending of the world–apocalypses within and without.

    About Memoirs and Misinformation

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    “None of this is real and all of it is true.” –Jim Carrey

    Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he’s an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege–but he’s also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even . . . getting fat? He’s tried diets, gurus, and cuddling with his military-grade Israeli guard dogs, but nothing seems to lift the cloud of emptiness and ennui. Even the sage advice of his best friend, actor and dinosaur skull collector Nicolas Cage, isn’t enough to pull Carrey out of his slump.

    But then Jim meets Georgie: ruthless ingénue, love of his life. And with the help of auteur screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, he has a role to play in a boundary-pushing new picture that may help him uncover a whole new side to himself–finally, his Oscar vehicle! Things are looking up!

    But the universe has other plans.

    Memoirs and Misinformation is a fearless semi-autobiographical novel, a deconstruction of persona. In it, Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon have fashioned a story about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, our “one big soul,” Canada, and a cataclysmic ending of the world–apocalypses within and without.

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    About Jim Carrey

    JIM CARREY is an award-winning actor and artist.

    About Dana Vachon

    DANA VACHON is the co-author, with Jim Carrey, of the novel Memoirs and Misinformation, and the author of the novel Mergers and… More about Dana Vachon

    About Jim Carrey

    JIM CARREY is an award-winning actor and artist.

    About Dana Vachon

    DANA VACHON is the co-author, with Jim Carrey, of the novel Memoirs and Misinformation, and the author of the novel Mergers and… More about Dana Vachon

    About Jim Carrey

    JIM CARREY is an award-winning actor and artist.

    About Dana Vachon

    DANA VACHON is the co-author, with Jim Carrey, of the novel Memoirs and Misinformation, and the author of the novel Mergers and… More about Dana Vachon

    About Jim Carrey

    JIM CARREY is an award-winning actor and artist.

    About Dana Vachon

    DANA VACHON is the co-author, with Jim Carrey, of the novel Memoirs and Misinformation, and the author of the novel Mergers and… More about Dana Vachon

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $30.00
    Published by Random House Large Print
    Jul 14, 2020 | 368 Pages | 5-1/2 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780593293706

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $27.95
    Published by Knopf
    Jul 07, 2020 | 272 Pages | 5-1/2 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780525655978

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Knopf
    Jul 07, 2020 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9780525655985

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jul 07, 2020 | 470 Minutes | ISBN 9780593216620

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    Praise

    “A satirical adventure in which Carrey plumbs the chasms of Hollywood’s self-obsessed culture.” 
    —Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times

    “A simultaneously baffling and mesmerizing examination of Carrey’s psyche . . .  a reimagining of the traditional Hollywood tell-all.” 
    —Thomas Floyd, The Washington Post

    “Memoirs and Misinformation is, like the twisted political drawings Carrey posts on Twitter, entirely its own thing. A satire of Hollywood’s self-absorption coinciding with the end of the planet, none of it is real … except when it is . . . A wholly strange work of autofiction, laden with symbolism and metaphor, sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic.” 
    —Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times

    “An engaging, fun tale that plays with the public perceptions of celebrities, questions our compulsive need to view, and contains a gloriously off-the-wall conclusion.” 
    —Alexander Moran, Booklist

    “Not a typical tell-all. . . . blends moving autobiography, name-droppish tabloid fodder, science-fiction, and anti-capitalist screed.”
    —Entertainment Weekly

    “A mad fever dream. . . Carrey and his collaborator Vachon pull out all the stops as their protagonist Jim Carrey careens from midlife blues through love and career complications toward the apocalypse . . . gems of comic fantasy and the nuggets of memoir gold.” 
    —Kirkus

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