334
Author(s): Thomas M. Disch
If Charles Dickens has written speculative fiction, he might have created a novel as intricate, passionate, and lacerating as Thomas M. Disch's visionary portrait of the underbelly of 21st-century New York City. The residents of the public housing project at 334 East 11th Street live in a world of rationed babies and sanctioned drug addiction. Real food is displayed in museums and hospital attendants moonlight as body-snatchers.
Nimbly hopscotching backward and forward in time, Disch charts the shifting relationships between this world's inheritors: an aging matriarch who falls in love with her young social worker; a widow seeking comfort from the spirit of her dead husband; a privileged preteen choreographing the perfectly gratuitous murder. Poisonously funny, piercingly authentic, 334 is a masterpiece of social realism disguised as science fiction.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Random House Inc
- : Random House Inc
- : 0.55
- : 30 April 1999
- : 0.75000mm X 5.50000mm X 8.50000mm
- : 01 February 1999
- : books
Special Fields
- : Thomas M. Disch
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 813/.54
- : 99017865