AMBIENT

Womack, Jack

ISBN 10: 1555840825 / ISBN 13: 9781555840822

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York, 1987

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Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Signed by Womack. The author's first novel, set in a violent, decaying New York city of the early twenty-first century. "In a future milieu as gritty and dark as that of the cyberpunks, but minus their ubiquitous computer technology, the Dryco Corporation dominates the world through its control of the recreational drug market. The various members of the Dryden family, owners of Dryco, seem to be involved in endless, borderline-psychotic plots to increase their power over the world around them. Later books in the series, not all of which are tightly connected to AMBIENT, include TERRAPLANE (1988), HEATHERN (1990), the Philip K. Dick Award-winning ELVISSEY (1993), RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE (1993), and GOING, GOING, GONE (2000). Womack's books are difficult because he writes in a futuristic slang, much as Anthony Burgess did in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1284. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#93949).

Seller Inventory # 93949

Bibliographic Details

• Title: AMBIENT
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555840825
• ISBN 13: 9781555840822
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Dystopia
  • Utopian Literature
  • Tale of the Future
  • Fantastic Crime
  • Mystery & Crime

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Synopsis

In the violent, decaying New York City of the future, an unrequited love turns into a complicated death trap involving murderous family rivalries, perverse military practices, and the mutant products of a nuclear meltdown

From the Back Cover

Set in a decaying and violent twenty-first-century New York, Ambient tells the story of O'Malley, a very special bodyguard for an outrageously ruthless CEO named Dryden, and of his attempts to woo Dryden's personal femme fatale, Avalon. But what begins as a simple case of unrequited love quickly turns into a complicated deathtrap involving corporate intrigue, murderous family rivalries, and perverse subcultures.