Going, Going, Gone
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Erscheinungsdatum
01.12.2007
Verlag
Grove PressSeitenzahl
224 (Printausgabe)
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2690 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781555847586
"
Futurist wunderkind Womack concludes his heralded Ambient series with this intriguing, clever novel set in an alternate, semi-historical 1968" (
Publishers Weekly).
It's 1968, and Walter Bullitt, part-time US government freelancer and collector of "race records," stays busy testing new psychotropics on himself and unsuspecting citizens. Walter's conscience never interferes with his work-until he's asked to help sabotage Bobby Kennedy's presidential campaign. The ghosts who've moved into his apartment aren't much comfort. Then two outré femmes fatales show up and frog-march Walter out of Max's Kansas City before the Velvet Underground can finish their first song. The ladies have a mission. They need to save New York-both his and theirs.
Bringing his acclaimed Ambient series to a close, "Womack has crafted a fast-moving, hipper-than-hip science fiction novel meshing the exuberant wordplay of Anthony Burgess with the high-concept what-if history Philip Dick made famous with
The Man in the High Castle" (
Publishers Weekly).
"A bizarre mating of William S. Burroughs and Robert Heinlein, though the over-the-top, hipster, first-person narration might also make readers think of Jack Kerouac channeled through P. G. Wodehouse." -
The Oregonian
"Like Damon Runyon and James M. Cain, Jack Womack has a gift for inventing oddball language....Daringly, scaringly distinct in contemporary fiction." -
Philadelphia Weekly
"The action moves with amphetamine quickness, and Womack's surefooted control over his material completely sucks us in....Has roots in the paranoid, conspiratorial bookends of Norman Mailer's near-delirious
An American Dream and Thomas Pynchon's
The Crying of Lot 49."
-Bookforum
Futurist wunderkind Womack concludes his heralded Ambient series with this intriguing, clever novel set in an alternate, semi-historical 1968" (
Publishers Weekly).
It's 1968, and Walter Bullitt, part-time US government freelancer and collector of "race records," stays busy testing new psychotropics on himself and unsuspecting citizens. Walter's conscience never interferes with his work-until he's asked to help sabotage Bobby Kennedy's presidential campaign. The ghosts who've moved into his apartment aren't much comfort. Then two outré femmes fatales show up and frog-march Walter out of Max's Kansas City before the Velvet Underground can finish their first song. The ladies have a mission. They need to save New York-both his and theirs.
Bringing his acclaimed Ambient series to a close, "Womack has crafted a fast-moving, hipper-than-hip science fiction novel meshing the exuberant wordplay of Anthony Burgess with the high-concept what-if history Philip Dick made famous with
The Man in the High Castle" (
Publishers Weekly).
"A bizarre mating of William S. Burroughs and Robert Heinlein, though the over-the-top, hipster, first-person narration might also make readers think of Jack Kerouac channeled through P. G. Wodehouse." -
The Oregonian
"Like Damon Runyon and James M. Cain, Jack Womack has a gift for inventing oddball language....Daringly, scaringly distinct in contemporary fiction." -
Philadelphia Weekly
"The action moves with amphetamine quickness, and Womack's surefooted control over his material completely sucks us in....Has roots in the paranoid, conspiratorial bookends of Norman Mailer's near-delirious
An American Dream and Thomas Pynchon's
The Crying of Lot 49."
-Bookforum
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