Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy - Couverture souple

Ruff, Matt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0802141552 ISBN 13 : 9780802141552

Editeur : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004

Synopsis

From the New York Times Bestselling author of Lovecraft Country, now an HBO series.

Sewer, Gas & Electric is the exuberant follow-up to Matt Ruff's cult classic and critically acclaimed debut Fool on the Hill.

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 Abbie 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matt Ruff is the author of three novels, Fool on the Hill, Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy, and Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife, Lisa Gold.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802141552
• ISBN 13: 9780802141552
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 450
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