Just a Couple of Days (Paperback)

Blip Korterly kicks off a game of graffiti tag on a local overpass by painting a simple phrase: "Uh-oh." An anonymous interlocutor writes back: "When?" Blip slyly answers: "Just a couple of days." But what happens in just a couple of days? Blip is arrested; his friend, Dr. Flake Fountain - a molecular biologist - is drafted into a shadow-government research project conducting experiments on humans. The virus being tested - cleverly called "the Pied Piper" - renders its victims incapable of symbolic capacity; that is, incapable of communication. Is this biological weaponry? What would happen if it were let loose on the world? Does a babbling populace pose a threat or provide an opportunity for social evolution?This novel's absurd, larger-than-life characters speak in exuberant prose that is as satirical as it is playful, as full of implications as it is full of mirth. It's no wonder "Just a Couple of Days" has become an underground cult classic.

General

Imprint:	Harvest Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2007
First published:	April 2007
Authors:	Tony Vigorito
Dimensions:	203 x 134 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-15-603122-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-15-603122-1
Barcode:	9780156031226

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