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Cover of Random Acts of Senseless Violence

Random Acts of Senseless Violence

✍ Scribed by Womack, Jack


Book ID
107724182
Publisher
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
166 KB
Series
Ambient 5
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781555847616

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✦ Synopsis


With his vivid, stylized prose, cyberpunk intensity, and seemingly limitless imagination, Jack Womack has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut. Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Womack's fifth novel, is a thrilling, hysterical, and eerily disturbing piece of work.

Lola Hart is an ordinary twelve-year-old girl. She comes from a comfortable family, attends an exclusive private school, loves her friends Lori and Katherine, teases her sister Boob. But in the increasingly troubled city where she lives (a near-future Manhattan) she is a dying breed. Riots, fire, TB outbreaks, roaming gangs, and civil unrest threaten her way of life, as well as the very fabric of New York City. In her diary, Lola chronicles the changes she and her family make as they attempt to adjust to a city, and a country, that is spinning out of control.

Her mother is a teacher, but no one is hiring. Her father is a writer, but no one is buying his scripts. Hounded by creditors and... ϑ쯦랠


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