Elvissey - Brossura

Womack, Jack

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0586213015 ISBN 13: 9780586213018

Casa editrice: Collins, 1993

Riassunto

In the 21st century, Womack-world is a nightmare world - there is martial law on the streets, guerilla warfare on Long Island and murder and mayhem in the boardrooms of the city. The powerful Dryco organization wields power across the world, but at home coercion may work better than force.

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L'autore:

Jack Womack is the author of six novels, among them ‘Random Acts of Senseless Violence’ which received widespread critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. When not writing he occupies himself smoking, shopping, smoking, reading, drinking and smoking. If he’s not doing any of these things, it’s quite possible that he’s asleep, or in Russia, whichever seems more necessary at the time.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

IZ IS ON A MISSION FROM THE FUTURE. OUR FUTURE.

New York, 2033. A rebellious populace flocks to join the C of E – Church of Elvis. The Elvii have already formed schismatic groups: among them the Hosts of Memphis and the Shaken, Rattled and Rolled. Global corporation Dryco send their operative, Iz, back to 1954 to bring Elvis home to his adoring millions. But the America she finds is strangely altered, and so too is the King. At the Presely home Elvis – nineteen , acned, never recorded – stands over the blood-splattered body of his ma...

“Nazi flying saucers over an alternate 1950s Memphis, your basic cross-time godhead-abduction of Elvis Presley, and what must surely be one of the flat-out weirdest Fisher King inversions yet perpetrated in American literature. Achingly sad, downright alarmingly funny, and just about as serious as any of us can afford to be, 'Elvissey' is one jarringly potent kick in the head. I can only urge you to put yours cleanly in its way”
WILLIAM GIBSON, AUTHOR OF 'NEUROMANCER'

“Not since Kurt Vonnegut in his SF prime has there been a talent so iconoclastically sparkling as Womack’s”
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS

“Womack mixes stylised prose, cyberpunk intensity and a wildfire imagination to scintillating effect”
NORTHERN ECHO

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• Editore: Collins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0586213015
• ISBN 13: 9780586213018
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352