Memoirs and Misinformation -- Jim Carrey, Hardcover

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.

Author: Jim Carrey, Dana Vachon
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 07/07/2020
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780525655978

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/30/2020
Booklist 04/15/2020 pg. 17
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2020

About the Author
JIM CARREY is an award-winning actor and artist.

DANA VACHON is the author of the novel Mergers and Acquisitions. His essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, and Vanity Fair. He lives in Brooklyn.