Sewer, Gas and Electric - Hardcover

Ruff, Matt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871134934 ISBN 13: 9780871134936

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1994

Synopsis

In the year 2023, as a crew of human and android steelworkers approaches the halfway point in the construction of a new Tower of Babel, the brainchild of billionaire Harry Gant, Harry's ex-wife Joan Fine, assisted by a resurrected Ayn Rand, sets out to solve the murder of a Wall Street takeover mogu

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Review

"Ruff is a protean talent. . . . Very much in the absurdist tradition of Pynchon, Heller, Robbins, and Vonnegut." -The Washington Post "A dizzying rampage . . . will leave readers gasping for breath, mainly from laughter." -The San Francisco Chronicle "A careening riot. . . . Ruff's second novel can only enhance his reputation as a fantasy writer with imagination to burn." -Kirkus Reviews "This exuberantly silly tale will find an audience among admirers of Steve Erickson and David Foster Wallace." -Publishers Weekly

From the Inside Flap

"A post-millennial spectacular-dizzyingly readable." -Thomas Pynchon" A turbocharged neo-Dickensian hot rod [with] plenty of intellectual horsepower." -Neal Stephenson

Edition details

• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871134934
• ISBN 13: 9780871134936
• Binding: Hardcover