With this rollicking novel-hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity-one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction. Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Through a turn of events as unlikely as it is inevitable, Guy finds himself compromised by scandal and romance, hounded by Hollywood, and agonizingly alone at the white-hot center of a firestorm ignited as three potent forces of American culture--politics, big science, and the media--spectacularly collide.
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A rollicking modern day political tale about a media firestorm swirling around a vast Hole in Texas and one obscure scientist who gets swept up in a vortex. With deep insight and considerable comic powers this is a witty and keen satire about Washington, the media and science when these three forces of American culture clash.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780316010856
Publisert
2005-06-06
Utgiver
Little, Brown & Company; Warner Books
Vekt
260 gr
Høyde
208 mm
Bredde
143 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288
Forfatter