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THE UNKNOWN KNOWNS: A NOVEL By Jeffrey Rotter - Hardcover **Mint Condition**
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- ISBN-10
- 1416587020
- Publication Name
- Scribner
- Type
- Hardcover
- Item Height
- 9 inches
- ISBN
- 9781416587026
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Unknown Knowns : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Fantasy / General, General, Literary
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 15.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Jim Rath's wife has grown tired of his hobbies: his immaculately maintained comics collection, his creepy underwater experiments, and his dreams of building a museum based on the Aquatic Ape Theory of Human Evolution. On the night that she leaves him, Jim thinks he has spotted an emissary from a lost aquatic race called the Nautikons. In truth, the man is a low-level agent of the Department of Homeland Security. What follows is a riveting story of two quixotic men who stalk each other toward a bloody showdown -- a spectacularly moronic act of terrorism at an aging water park.The Unknown Knowns-- its title is a reference to a quote from former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- is a brilliant send-up of the insidious language and sometimes tragically comic focus of our country's Homeland Security Department. Combining the social satire of Kurt Vonnegut with the paranoid delusions of Thomas Pynchon, Rotter takes everyday domestic fixations and turns them into a hilarious assessment of the human condition. Fresh, imaginative, and deft,The Unknown Knownsmarks the arrival of a unique new voice in literary fiction.
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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1416587020
ISBN-13
9781416587026
eBay Product ID (ePID)
69656477
Product Key Features
Book Title
Unknown Knowns : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Fantasy / General, General, Literary
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
15.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3618.O8693u55 2009
Reviews
"Jeffrey Rotter's first novel inhabits -- and illuminates -- an eerie landscape where romantic fantasy, paranoid delusion, and homeland security thrillingly intersect: in other words, twenty-first-century America." -- Jennifer Egan, author ofLook at MeandThe Keep, "Perceptive and humorous.... Rotter's imagination is formidable and fresh."-- Joseph Salvatore,New York Times Book Review, "An offbeat and Pynchonesque debut, with some genuinely funny moments -- and some freakishly aberrant ones." --Kirkus Reviews, "Vonnegutesque...A hyperintelligent, surrealistic tale with a wackiness factor worthy of Kilgore Trout." --Booklist(starred review), "Absurdly hilarious in a Charlie Kaufmanesque kind of way...Smart about paranoia...Freshly observed."-- Gary Shteyngart, author ofAbsurdistanandThe Russian Debutante's Handbook, "Two crackpots are on a collision course in this Vonnegut-esque tale of delusion, violence, and homeland security...a hyperintelligent, surrealistic tale."--Booklist, starred review, "A wonderful book -- smart, tight, and funny --A Confederacy of Duncesmeets Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin. I loved it." -- Douglas Coupland, author ofGeneration XandThe Gum Thief
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2008-030705
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Dewey Edition
22
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