334

A Novel

von Thomas M. Disch

274 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

If Charles Dickens had written speculative fiction, he might have created a novel as intricate, passionate, and lacerating as Thomas M. Disch's visionary portrait of the underbelly of 21st-century New York City. The residents of the public housing project at 334 East 11th Street live in a world of rationed babies and sanctioned drug addiction. Real food is displayed in museums and hospital attendants moonlight as body-snatchers.

Nimbly hopscotching backward and forward in time, Disch charts the shifting relationships between this world's inheritors: an aging matriarch who falls in love with her young social worker; a widow seeking comfort from the spirit of her dead husband; a privileged preteen choreographing the perfectly gratuitous murder. Poisonously funny, piercingly authentic, 334 is a masterpiece of social realism disguised as science fiction.

• Themen: Belletristik Science-Fiction
• ISBN: 9780375705441
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.04.1999
• Größe: 203 x 132 mm
• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group