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- Book Synopsis
- The H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been accidentally spread around the globe, deleting human identity. In post-NK3 Los Angeles, a sixty-foot-tall fence surrounds the hills where the rich used to live, but the mansions have been taken over by those with the only power that matters: the power of memory. Inside the Fence, life for the new aristocracy, a society of the partially rehabilitated who call themselves the Verified, is a perpetual party. Outside the Fence, in downtown Los Angeles, the Verified use an invented mythology to keep control over the mindless Drifters, Shamblers and Bottle Bangers who serve the gift economy until no longer needed. The ruler, Chief, takes his guidance from gigantic effigies of a man and a woman in the heart of the Fence. In deliciously dark prose, Tolkin winds a noose-like plot around this melee of despots, prophets and rebels as they struggle for command and survival in a town that still manages to exert a magnetic force, even as a ruined husk.
- About The Author
- Michael Tolkin is the author of The Player, and Among the Dead . He wrote the screenplay for the Robert Altman film The Player and wrote and directed The Rapture and The New Age. Atlantic Books publishes The Return of the Player and Under Radar.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781611855067
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Grove Press UK, (07 June 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 236 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 190 x 130 x 20 mm
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