Libro A Journal of the Flood Year De David Ely

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Granta Books

Autor

David Ely

Año

2009

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

1846271673

ISBN13

9781846271670

Categorías

Ficción literaria

A Journal of the Flood Year

David Ely (Autor) · Granta Books · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "A Journal of the Flood Year"

In a near-future, half-flooded world governed by technobureaucracy and ultraconformity, where human contact is abhorrent and passion unheard of, William Fowke already has a reputation as a trouble-maker. And now he insists that the Wall - the engineering marvel that keeps what remains of America's East Coast from being inundated by the Atlantic Ocean - is leaking. Convicted of sedition and 'excluded', Fowke begins a horrific, thrilling odyssey through a nether world of gulags. With the exception of agent Julia Keller, who arrested him, everyone is hostile, including his former bosses and fellow prisoners, leaving Fowke excluded even by the excluded. And desperate to get back to his threatened Wall to sound the alarm ...