Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy : A Novel - signed - signiert

Ruff, Matt

ISBN 10: 0871136414 / ISBN 13: 9780871136411

Published by Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1997

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auf Vorsatz mit Zeichnung signiert von dem amerikanischen Schriftsteller Matt Ruff (*1965), leichte Gebrauchsspuren. signed by author Size: 8°. Seller Inventory # 024198

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works ...

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Original-Pappband

Condition: Gut

Dust Jacket Condition: Gut

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1. Auflage.

Book Type: Buch

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Synopsis:

The year is 2023. High above the canyons of Manhattan, a crew of human and android steelworkers is approaching the halfway point in the construction of a new Tower of Babel. The Tower is the brainchild of billionaire Harry Gant, who is building it as a monument to humanity's power to dream. Meanwhile, on the streets (and below), a darker game is afoot: A Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Harry's ex-wife, Joan Fine, has been hired to find out why. Accompanying her is philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand, resurrected from the dead by computer and bottled in a hurricane lamp to serve as Joan's unwilling assistant. While Rand vainly attempts to tutor her in "the virtue of selfishness," Joan discovers that the murder is the key to a much larger mystery - one in which millions of lives may hang in the balance.
The world of Sewer, Gas & Electric includes such characters as submarine eco-terrorist Philo Dufrense; his daughter, Seraphina, who lives in the walls of the New York Public Library; newspaper publisher Lexa Thatcher, whose Volkswagen Beetle is possessed by the spirit of Abbie Hoffman; and Meisterbrau, a mutant great white shark who swims in the sewer tunnels beneath Times Square - all of whom, and many more besides, are caught up in a conspiracy involving Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and an army of homicidal robots.

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