Bloomsbury The Relive Box and Other Stories

 

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Bloomsbury
Online sinds
25 september 2018
EAN
9781408890103
Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Paperback
Aantal pagina's
272 pagina's

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Winner of the Jonathan Swift Prize 2017 T.C. Boyle emerges with a satirical and surreal collection. Confronts the neuroses and foibles of the day with electric prose

In these stories, T. C. Boyle focuses hisunerring eye on humanity's relationship with nature, and the unintended consequences of our efforts to control it. The prize-winning 'Are We Not Men?' reflects on the impact of new gene-editing technologies while 'The Relive Box' parodies our obsession with electronic games.

In 'She's the Bomb', a young woman waits on her graduation day, heart in mouth, for an explosive event. A burrito-seller has a killer business idea in 'The Five-Pound Burrito', but learns that success comes at a price. An Italian couple moves south for a fresh start in 'The Argentine Ant', but finds that paradise holds a nasty sting. And in the chilling 'The Designee', a lonely widower can't believe his luck when he receives a mysterious letter from England.

In electric prose T. C. Boyle explores myriad facets of society: greed and excess, parenthood and responsibility, the digital world and the way we understand our mortality. Roaming unrestrainedly through
the present and near future, he inhabits his characters' minds with a ventriloquist's flair, skewering human motivations and revealing us to ourselves with empathy and wry humour.

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Artikelnummer
9213006
Online sinds
25 september 2018
EAN
9781408890103

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Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Paperback
Aantal pagina's
272 pagina's

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Verschijningsdatum
januari 2018
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19,8 x 12,9 x 2,2 cm