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Egg Code by Mike Heppner (2002, Hardcover)

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Get ready for a thrilling ride with "The Egg Code" by Mike Heppner. With 480 pages, this book will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375412905

ISBN-139780375412905

eBay Product ID (ePID)2234653

Product Key Features

Book TitleEgg Code

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicPsychological, Literary, Thrillers / Technological

GenreFiction

AuthorMike Heppner

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight28 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-019022

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"A hugely rewarding barnburner for the Internet age." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Engaging and lively. . . . [Heppner] is a young master of this old art, and we should be happy to see him arrive so splendidly." -The Washington Post "Heppner is a fearsome cultural critic disguised in a novelist's clothing." -Entertainment Weekly "This debut novel marries the threat of rogue technology with the notion of generational legacy." -The New York Times Book Review

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SynopsisWith astonishing scope, flair and originality, Mike Heppner's debut explores our secret lives and most desperate impulses even as they are penetrated by a global web of mysterious provenance and dubious promise. Few who live in Big Dipper Township have even heard about anything called the Egg Code; they're busy enough as it is. At one end of this tiny Midwestern community, a motivational speaker starts choking on his own words, while at another, an impressionable dancer struggles to realize her recurrent dreams of flying. An estranged wife becomes a counterfeit folklorist, while an aging typographer is besieged by regret. And-in one household-a "living arrangements" salesman is harried to the verge of losing his livelihood, while his wife stage-mothers their talentless son and eventually decides to take destiny into her own hands. Also nearby, however, is a lone hacker bent on destroying the demon among them all: a router, the Gloria 21169, that, along with thousands of others, trafficks in information from all the world over to comprise the Internet. But the Gloria, or the corporation that controls it, has taken command of the entire network, at a tremendous cost to this young man's family and to the consternation of parties on both sides of the technological revolution. The crisscrossing of these many lives reveals how much (if at all) these quantum shifts in our society have affected our hopes, behavior and prospects. As much Our Town as 2001, and as funny as it is suspenseful, The Egg Code is both a hugely entertaining novel and the announcement of a spectacular career.

LC Classification NumberPS3608.E58E35 2002