| Sewer, Gas & Electric Contributor(s): Ruff, Matt (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802141552 ISBN-13: 9780802141552 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: "A post-millennial spectacular-dizzyingly readable." -Thomas Pynchon" A turbocharged neo-Dickensian hot rod [with] plenty of intellectual horsepower." -Neal Stephenson |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Absurdist |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96036039 |
| Series: Public Works Trilogy (Grove Press) |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 450 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - New York, N.Y. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the New York Times Bestselling author of Lovecraft Country, now an HBO series. High above Manhattan android and human steelworkers are constructing a new Tower of Babel for billionaire Harry Gant, as a monument to humanity's power to dream. In the festering sewers below a darker game is afoot: a Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Gant's crusading ex-wife, Joan Fine, has been hired to find out why. The year is 2023, and Ayn Rand has been resurrected and bottled in a hurricane lamp to serve as Joan's assistant; an eco-terrorist named Philo Dufrense travels in a pink-and-green submarine designed by Howard Hughes; a Volkswagen Beetle is possessed by the spirit of Abbey Hoffman; Meisterbrau, a mutant great white shark, is running loose in the sewers beneath Times Square; and a one-armed 181-year-old Civil War veteran joins Joan and Ayn in their quest for the truth. All of whom, and many more besides, are caught up in a vast conspiracy involving Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and a mob of homicidal robots. |