The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of
our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz
Kafka and Joseph Heller.
From its opening pages--when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to
find he's shot himself in the head--novelist Jess Walter takes us
on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the
aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly
clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping, lurching between
moments of lucidity and days when he doesn't seem to be living his
own life at all. The landscape around him is at once fractured and
oddly familiar: a world dominated by a Machiavellian mayor known as
"The Boss," and peopled by gawking celebrities, anguished policemen
peddling First Responder cereal, and pink real estate divas hyping
the spoils of tragedy. Remy himself has a new girlfriend he doesn't
know, a son who pretends he's dead, and an unsettling new job
chasing a trail of paper scraps for a shadowy intelligence agency
known as the Department of Documentation. Whether that trail will
lead Remy to an elusive terror cell--or send him circling back to
himself--is only one of the questions posed by this provocative yet
deeply human novel.
From a novelist of astounding talent, The Zero is an
extraordinary story of how our trials become our transgressions, of
how we forgive ourselves and whether or not we should.
General
Imprint: |
HarperCollins Publishers
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2007 |
First published: |
August 2007 |
Authors: |
Jess Walter
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Dimensions: |
202 x 134 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
Pages: |
368 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-06-118943-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-06-118943-X |
Barcode: |
9780061189432 |
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