Wally Philco is a gentle, midlevel insurance industry operative
living with his wife, Margie, in Brooklyn. In the years since those
terrible events took place in Tupelo, Mississippi, though, the
world -- and Brooklyn, too -- has become a very different place.
Nobody's sure exactly what happened on the day now known as
Horribleness Day, but it became pretty clear afterward that the
Australians were involved somehow. Long after all the initial
craziness has petered out, the Horribleness is still being used as
an excuse for everything, from insomnia and lower back pain to
joblessness, bank robbery, higher taxes, drunk driving, and murder.
Likewise, everything from icy sidewalks to earthquakes to casino
bus accidents is being cited as the work of terrorists.
Now it's every Mutual Citizen's job to keep an eye on his
neighbor and to report anything amiss. Wally's neighbor, Whit
Chambers, has been busy practically setting a world record for
turning in suspicious characters and Unmutuals to the local
authorities and, in fact, Whit's had his eye and his telescope
trained on Wally for some time now. When Wally finally snaps, he
finds refuge with the Unpluggers, an underground movement fighting
for just a few minutes of peace and quiet. With a cast of
Dickensian characters, from stroller-wielding Brooklyn mothers to
former Kennedy spooks and Norwegian cowboys, Jim Knipfel's
"Unplugging Philco" is a wildly funny look at our life and times,
filled with sharp cultural references and vivid, witty prose that
testifies to a dangerously perceptive mind behind the madness.
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