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Spook Country by William Gibson (2008, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100425221415
ISBN-139780425221419
eBay Product ID (ePID)128676819
Product Key Features
Book TitleSpook Country
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicScience Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Thrillers / Political, Thrillers / Technological
Publication Year2008
GenreFiction
AuthorWilliam Gibson
Book SeriesBlue Ant Ser.
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight14.9 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
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ReviewsA devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist.” —Washington Post Book World A puzzle palace of bewitching proportions and stubborn echoes.” —Los Angeles Times Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world.” —Details Both cool and scary.” —San Francisco Chronicle Gibson’s work is all edge and chill and incipient panic…His worlds are so striking, so plausible, that you’re just happy to be along for the ride.” —Chicago Tribune A fitful, fast-forward spy tale.” —USA Today The author himself is enthusiastically working his way back from the future.” —Entertainment Weekly [His] complex and riveting new novel, Spook Country, is both entertaining and visionary, solidifying his position as the twenty-first century’s primary literary soothsayer.” —Vancouver Sun A delicious surge of pleasure-center prose.” —Los Angeles Times Never anything less than fascinating.” —Columbus Dispatch Gibson takes aim at the BlackBerry era with the excellent Spook Country.” —Men’s Health, “A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist.â€� — Washington Post Book World “A puzzle palace of bewitching proportions and stubborn echoes.â€� — Los Angeles Times “Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world.â€� — Details “Both cool and scary.â€� — San Francisco Chronicle “Gibson’s work is all edge and chill and incipient panic&His worlds are so striking, so plausible, that you’re just happy to be along for the ride.â€� — Chicago Tribune “A fitful, fast-forward spy tale.â€� — USA Today “The author himself is enthusiastically working his way back from the future.â€� — Entertainment Weekly “[His] complex and riveting new novel, Spook Country , is both entertaining and visionary, solidifying his position as the twenty-first century’s primary literary soothsayer.â€� — Vancouver Sun “A delicious surge of pleasure-center prose.â€� — Los Angeles Times “Never anything less than fascinating.â€� — Columbus Dispatch “Gibson takes aim at the BlackBerry era with the excellent Spook Country .â€� — Men’s Health, "A puzzle palace of bewitching proportions and stubborn echoes."-- Los Angeles Times "Arguably the first example of the post-post-9/11 novel, whose characters are tired of being pushed around by forces larger than they are--bureaucracy, history and, always, technology--and are at long last ready to start pushing back."-- The New York Times Book Review "Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world."-- Details "[A] dazed, mournful quality...[An] evocation of post-9/11 displacement, the sense of a world in which nothing seems fixed or reassuring...one of our vital novelists."-- Newsday "Although wearing the trappings of a thriller, Spook Country is essentially a comedy, albeit a dry, dark, and disturbing one."-- San Francisco Chronicle "A fitful, fast-forward spy tale...It's to Gibson's credit that he weaves his strands of disparate narrators, protagonists and foils, and his panoply of far-forward technology, into a vivid, suspenseful and ultimately coherent tale."-- USA Today "Part thriller, part spy novel, part speculative fiction, Gibson's provocative work is like nothing you have ever read before."-- Library Journal "Set in the same high-tech present day as Pattern Recognition , Gibson's fine ninth novel offers startling insights into our paranoid and often fragmented postmodern world....Compelling characters and crisp action sequences, plus the author's trademark metaphoric language, help make this one of Gibson's best."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Gibson excels as usual in creating an off-kilter atmosphere of vague menace."-- Kirkus Reviews , aA devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist.a a"Washington Post Book World" aA puzzle palace of bewitching proportions and stubborn echoes.a a"Los Angeles Times" aLike Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world.a a"Details" aBoth cool and scary.a a"San Francisco Chronicle" aGibsonas work is all edge and chill and incipient panica]His worlds are so striking, so plausible, that youare just happy to be along for the ride.a a"Chicago Tribune" aA fitful, fast-forward spy tale.a a"USA Today" aThe author himself is enthusiastically working his way back from the future.a a"Entertainment Weekly" a[His] complex and riveting new novel, "Spook Country," is both entertaining and visionary, solidifying his position as the twenty-first centuryas primary literary soothsayer.a a"Vancouver Sun" aA delicious surge of pleasure-center prose.a a"Los Angeles Times" aNever anything less than fascinating.a a"Columbus Dispatch" aGibson takes aim at the BlackBerry era with the excellent "Spook Country,"a a"Menas Health", "A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist." -- Washington Post Book World "A puzzle palace of bewitching proportions and stubborn echoes." -- Los Angeles Times "Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world." -- Details "Both cool and scary." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Gibson's work is all edge and chill and incipient panic...His worlds are so striking, so plausible, that you're just happy to be along for the ride." -- Chicago Tribune "A fitful, fast-forward spy tale." -- USA Today "The author himself is enthusiastically working his way back from the future." -- Entertainment Weekly "[His] complex and riveting new novel, Spook Country , is both entertaining and visionary, solidifying his position as the twenty-first century's primary literary soothsayer." -- Vancouver Sun "A delicious surge of pleasure-center prose." -- Los Angeles Times "Never anything less than fascinating." -- Columbus Dispatch "Gibson takes aim at the BlackBerry era with the excellent Spook Country ." -- Men's Health
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Series Volume Number2
Dewey Decimal813.54
Grade ToUP
SynopsisThe "New York Times" bestseller from aone of the most astute and entertaining commentators on our astonishing, chaotic present.a( "Washington Post Book World") Hollis Henry is a journalist on investigative assignment for a magazine called "Node," which doesnat exist yet. Bobby Chombo is a producer working on cutting-edge art installations. In his day job, Bobby is a trouble-shooter for military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. Hollis Henry has been told to find him., The latest "New York Times" bestseller by the author of "Pattern Recognition" offers the story of an investigative journalist who is assigned the task of finding a spook--an intelligence agent who refuses to sleep in the same place twice., The "cool and scary"( San Francisco Chronicle ) New York Times bestseller from the author of Pattern Recognition and Neuromancer . spook (spook) n.: A specter; a ghost. Slang for "intelligence agent." country (kn-tre) n.: In the mind or in reality. The World. The United States of America, New Improved Edition. What lies before you. What lies behind. spook country (spook kn-tre) n.: The place where we all have landed, few by choice. The place we are learning to live. Hollis Henry is a journalist, on investigative assignment for a magazine called Node , which doesn't exist yet. Bobby Chombo apparently does exist, as a producer. But in his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. And Hollis Henry has been told to find him... "A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist."-- The Washington Post Book World
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