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ISBN10: 0375705449
ISBN13: 9780375705441
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Apr 27 1999
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780375705441
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Apr 27 1999
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
If Charles Dickens had written speculative fiction, he might have created a novel as intricate, passionate, and lacerating as Thomas M. Disch's visionary portrait of the underbelly of 21st-century New York City. The residents of the public housing project at 334 East 11th Street live in a world of rationed babies and sanctioned drug addiction. Real food is displayed in museums and hospital attendants moonlight as body-snatchers. Nimbly hopscotching backward and forward in time, Disch charts the shifting relationships between this world's inheritors: an aging matriarch who falls in love with her young social worker; a widow seeking comfort from the spirit of her dead husband; a privileged preteen choreographing the perfectly gratuitous murder. Poisonously funny, piercingly authentic, 334 is a masterpiece of social realism disguised as science fiction.
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