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Synopsis
Meet Vi Asplund, a young Secret Service agent mourning her dead father. Meet her brother, Jens, who is poised to make a fortune on Big If, a nihilistic computer game aimed at teenagers. View American society as Vi sees it in those around her.
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Review
'Mark Costello's work should have been born with the words Great American Novel stamped on the front’ -- Economist Books of the Year
‘An unclassifiable tour de force that’s every bit as absorbing as it is original’ -- David Foster Wallace
‘Dazzling... Costello has created a thoroughly original universe' -- Jay McInerney, New York Times Book Review
‘Fans of Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon may begin to think of Mark Costello in their company’ -- The Wall Street Journal
‘Mark Costello stakes out territory which you would never have guessed it was vital to read about' -- Jonathan Franzen, author of 'The Corrections'
About the Author
Mark Costello, whose first novel, Bag Men, was written under the name John Flood, lives in New York.
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