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Автор: Crain Caleb
Название: Overthrow
ISBN: 9780525560456
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Модернистская и современная художественная литература

ISBN-10: 0525560459
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 416
Вес: 0.65 кг.
Дата издания: 27.08.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 163 x 236 x 38
Подзаголовок: A novel
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: A nineteenth-century social novel for the twenty-first-century surveillance state.
--The New York Times Book Review
A political thriller with a radical spirit. --The Boston Globe

A deeply humane novel that explores the fate of candor, good will, and the utopian spirit in a world where technology and surveillance are weaponizing human relationships

One autumn night, as a grad student named Matthew is walking home from the subway, a handsome skateboarder catches his eye. Leif, mesmerizing and enigmatic, invites Matthew to meet his friends, who are experimenting with tarot cards. Its easier to know whats in other peoples minds than most people realize, the friends claim. Do they believe in telepathy? Can they actually do it? Though Matthew should be writing his dissertation on the poetry of kingship, he soon finds himself falling in love with Leif--a poet of the internet age--and entangled with Leifs group as they visit the Occupy movements encampment across the river, where they hope their ideas about radical empathy will help heal a divided world and destabilize the 1%.

When the group falls afoul of a security contractor freelancing for the government, the news coverage, internet outrage, and legal repercussions damage the romances and alliances that hold the friends together, and complicate the faith the members of the group have--or, in some cases, dont have--in the powers theyve been nurturing. Elspeth and Raleigh, two of Leifs oldest friends, will see if their relationship can weather the strains of criminal charges; Chris and Julia, who drifted into the group more recently, will have their loyalties tested; and Matthew, entranced by the man at the center of it all, will have to decide what he owes Leif and how much hes willing to give him. All six will be forced to reckon with the ambiguous nature of transparency and with the insidious natures of power and privilege.

Overthrow is a story about the aftermath of the search for a new moral idealism, in a world where new controls on us--through technology, surveillance, the law--seem to be changing the nature and shape of the boundaries that we imagine around our selves. Caleb Crain, with astonishing sensitivity, acuity, and grace, has captured the deep unease and ambiguity that threaten our contemporary lives, and has written a beautiful novel about the redemptive possibilities of love and friendship.

Overthrow, Crain Caleb