The Word Exchange: Anchor Books
Autor Alena Graedonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 feb 2015
Books, libraries, and newspapers have at last become things of the past. Now handheld Memes allow for constant communication and entertainment. They can even anticipate our needs, dialing the doctor before we know we re sick, or prompting us with words we can t recall. Yet a few dedicated wordsmiths are still laboring on the final print edition of the "North American Dictionary of the English Language." But one evening, right before it s released, Anana Johnson finds that the chief editor her father has vanished.
In alternating points of view, Anana and her bookish colleague Bart follow their only clue, the word"ALICE," down the proverbial rabbit hole, into subterranean passages, the stacks of the Mercantile Library, and secret meetings of an anti-Meme underground resistance, racing closer to the truth about Anana s father s disappearance, and discovering a frightening connection to the growing word flu pandemic."
| Toate formatele și edițiile | Preț | Express |
|---|---|---|
| Paperback (2) | 51.04 lei 3-5 săpt. | |
| Orion Publishing Group – 18 iun 2015 | 51.04 lei 3-5 săpt. | |
| Anchor Books – 2 feb 2015 | 119.84 lei 3-5 săpt. |
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780345806031
ISBN-10: 0345806034
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 132 x 206 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Anchor Books
Colecția Anchor Books
Seria Anchor Books
ISBN-10: 0345806034
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 132 x 206 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Anchor Books
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Notă biografică
Alena Graedon
Descriere
Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
'Spine-tingling' New York Times
'A fast-paced, thrill-a-minute début novel' New Yorker
'Graedon knows how to ratchet up mystery' Esquire
WORDS ARE UNDER THREAT.
IT'S TIME TO FIGHT BACK...
Imagine a world without words.
A world in which books, libraries and newspapers are things of the past.
A world where personal devices provide all you could want or need.
Anana Johnson and her father, Doug, are hard at work on the final edition that will ever be printed of the English Dictionary. But one evening, Doug disappears and Anana unearths a single written clue: ALICE.
In the battle to save her father, Anana discovers secret societies, dark incinerator rooms and underground passages.
Above all, she finds a world that faces ruin from the dark side of technology.
Praise for The Word Exchange
'A nervy, nerdy dystopian thriller' New York Times Book Review
'A propulsive, twisty future-noir' Daily Beast
'Spectacular' Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove
'Dazzling' Slate
'Wildly ambitious, darkly intellectual and inventive' Kirkus Reviews, starred review
'Spine-tingling' New York Times
'A fast-paced, thrill-a-minute début novel' New Yorker
'Graedon knows how to ratchet up mystery' Esquire
WORDS ARE UNDER THREAT.
IT'S TIME TO FIGHT BACK...
Imagine a world without words.
A world in which books, libraries and newspapers are things of the past.
A world where personal devices provide all you could want or need.
Anana Johnson and her father, Doug, are hard at work on the final edition that will ever be printed of the English Dictionary. But one evening, Doug disappears and Anana unearths a single written clue: ALICE.
In the battle to save her father, Anana discovers secret societies, dark incinerator rooms and underground passages.
Above all, she finds a world that faces ruin from the dark side of technology.
Praise for The Word Exchange
'A nervy, nerdy dystopian thriller' New York Times Book Review
'A propulsive, twisty future-noir' Daily Beast
'Spectacular' Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove
'Dazzling' Slate
'Wildly ambitious, darkly intellectual and inventive' Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Recenzii
Clever, breathless and sportively Hegelian . . . THE WORD EXCHANGE combines the jaunty energy of youngish adult fiction (boyfriend trouble, parent conflicts, peer pressure and post-collegiate jitters) with the spine-tingling chill of the science-fiction conspiracy genre
Graedon's spectacular, ambitious debut explores a near-future America that's shifted almost exclusively to smart technologies, where print is only a nostalgia . . . it's as full of humanity as it is of mystery and intellectual prowess
[A] remarkable first novel, combining a vividly imagined future with the fondly remembered past . . . exquisite
A wildly ambitious, darkly intellectual and inventive thriller about the intersection of language, technology and meaning
Alena Graedon's spectacular debut is a story for our age of 'accelerated obsolescence.' A genuinely scary and funny mystery about linguistic slippage and disturbance, it's also a moving meditation on our sometimes comic, sometimes desperate struggles to speak, and to listen, and to mean something to one another.To borrow Graedon's own invention, THE WORD EXCHANGE is 'synchronic'--a gorgeous genre mashup that offers readers the pleasures of noir, science fiction, romance and philosophy. It's an unforgettable joyride across the thin ice of language
Imaginative, layered, and highly original, THE WORD EXCHANGE is an engagingly creepy story of technology gone wrong and a clever meditation on the enduring mysteries of language and love
Wow! This highly addictive future noir is also terrifyingly prescient. Set in a parallel New York filled with language viruses, pneumatic tubes, and heartbreak, Alena Graedon's book is luminous and haunting at every turn. I will never look at words in quite the same way-and neither will you.
Can you imagine a future without books, newspapers or magazines? Alena Graedon has done just that - her debut novel conjures up a scarily plausible dystopian future, where print is dead and intuitive handheld devices are the only method of communication.
In Graedon's dystopian future, face-to-face interfacing is finished and even email is a fading memory; when the man working on the last-ever dictionary goes missing, his daughter sets out to find him and discovers murky anti-literate corporate forces and outposts of word-loving outlaws.
The idea of technology taking over our lives to such an extent that we can no longer function without it was an interesting premise, and one that most of us will be able to relate to.
Graedon's spectacular, ambitious debut explores a near-future America that's shifted almost exclusively to smart technologies, where print is only a nostalgia . . . it's as full of humanity as it is of mystery and intellectual prowess
[A] remarkable first novel, combining a vividly imagined future with the fondly remembered past . . . exquisite
A wildly ambitious, darkly intellectual and inventive thriller about the intersection of language, technology and meaning
Alena Graedon's spectacular debut is a story for our age of 'accelerated obsolescence.' A genuinely scary and funny mystery about linguistic slippage and disturbance, it's also a moving meditation on our sometimes comic, sometimes desperate struggles to speak, and to listen, and to mean something to one another.To borrow Graedon's own invention, THE WORD EXCHANGE is 'synchronic'--a gorgeous genre mashup that offers readers the pleasures of noir, science fiction, romance and philosophy. It's an unforgettable joyride across the thin ice of language
Imaginative, layered, and highly original, THE WORD EXCHANGE is an engagingly creepy story of technology gone wrong and a clever meditation on the enduring mysteries of language and love
Wow! This highly addictive future noir is also terrifyingly prescient. Set in a parallel New York filled with language viruses, pneumatic tubes, and heartbreak, Alena Graedon's book is luminous and haunting at every turn. I will never look at words in quite the same way-and neither will you.
Can you imagine a future without books, newspapers or magazines? Alena Graedon has done just that - her debut novel conjures up a scarily plausible dystopian future, where print is dead and intuitive handheld devices are the only method of communication.
In Graedon's dystopian future, face-to-face interfacing is finished and even email is a fading memory; when the man working on the last-ever dictionary goes missing, his daughter sets out to find him and discovers murky anti-literate corporate forces and outposts of word-loving outlaws.
The idea of technology taking over our lives to such an extent that we can no longer function without it was an interesting premise, and one that most of us will be able to relate to.