Man Walks into a Room

Man Walks Into a Room
AuthorNicole Krauss
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
2002
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN9781407413365
OCLC809413112
Followed byThe History of Love (2005) 

Man Walks Into a Room, published in the United States by Doubleday on May 1, 2002,[1] is the first novel by American writer Nicole Krauss.

Set in 1957 and the present day, the novel, which is a meditation on memory and personal history, solitude and intimacy, tells the story of Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University in New York City, who is found wandering in the Nevada desert with no memory of his previous life.

  1. ^ Gillian Flynn (August 2, 2002). "Man Walks Into a Room". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2011.