{ August 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 256 pages Published 1993 Grove Press (2007) Masterworks of Science Fiction Until recently, Lola Ha
Random Acts of Senseless Violence
β 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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β¦ 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... Ο‘μ―¦λ
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