Six Degrees of Freedom

✍ Scribed by Dickner, Nicolas

• Book ID: 109863383
• Publisher: Knopf Canada
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780345811189

✦ Synopsis

A funny and fast-paced novel about obsession and adventure, science experiments and parakeets, coding and container __ ship s, Six Degrees of Freedom won the Governor General's Literary Award in its original French. Nicolas Dickner is a previous winner of Canada Reads for the novel Nikolski.
"Brilliant, beautiful and poetic with moments of pure reading pleasure! You read it with a smile on your lips--it's a book that makes you happy."
--Anne Michaud, Bernier et Cie, Radio-Canada
Three characters, infinite paths to freedom...
Lisa is a young woman whose longing for adventure is tethered by the demands of an eccentric mother and a father slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's. Lisa's friend Éric is an agoraphobic hacker who becomes independently wealthy before his eighteenth birthday. And Jay is a former computer pirate who's paying her debt to society, day by stultifying day, working for the RCMP in Montreal. But when Jay...