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From the "wickedly talented" ("Boston Globe") and "darkly funny" ("New York Times Book Review") Ryan Boudinot, "Blueprints of the Afterlife" is a tour de force. It is the Afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called "the Age of F***ed Up Shit." A sentient glacier has wiped out most of North America. Medical care is supplied by open-source nanotechnology, and human nervous systems can be hacked. Abby Fogg is a film archivist with a niggling feeling that her life is not really her own. She may be right. Al Skinner is a former mercenary for the Boeing Army, who's been dragging his war baggage behind him for nearly a century. Woo-jin Kan is a virtuoso dishwasher with the Hotel and Restaurant Management Olympics medals to prove it. Over them all hovers a mysterious man named Dirk Bickle, who sends all these characters to a full-scale replica of Manhattan under construction in Puget Sound. An ambitious novel that writes large the hopes and anxieties of our time--climate change, social strife, the depersonalization of the digital age--"Blueprints of the Afterlife" will establish Ryan Boudinot as an exceptional novelist of great daring.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Blueprints of the Afterlife
• Author: Ryan Boudinot
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 430
• EAN: 9780802170910
• ISBN: 0802170919
• ID: 01289936
• Publisher: GROVE PR BLACK CAT
• Weight: 399 g
• Dimensions: 208 × 141 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. January 2012

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