NK3 - Rilegato

Tolkin, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0802125433 ISBN 13: 9780802125439

Casa editrice: Everyman, 2017

Riassunto

With The Player and The Return of the Player, Michael Tolkin established himself as the master novelist of modern Hollywood. In his new novel, NK3, the H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been accidentally spread around the globe, deleting human identity.

In post-NK3 Los Angeles, a sixty-foot-tall fence surrounds the hills where the rich used to live, but the mansions have been taken over by those with the only power that matters: the power of memory. Life for the community inside the Fence, ruled over by the new aristocracy, the Verified, is a perpetual party. Outside the Fence, in downtown Los Angeles, the Verified use an invented mythology to keep control over the mindless and nameless Drifters, Shamblers, and Bottle Bangers who serve the gift economy until no longer needed. The ruler, Chief, takes his guidance from gigantic effigies of a man and a woman in the heart of the Fence. They warn him of trouble to come, but who is the person to watch: the elusive Eckmann, holed up with the last functioning plane at LAX; Shannon Squier, the chisel-wielding pop superstar from the pre-NK3 world, pulled from the shambling masses; a treacherous member of Chief’s inner circle; or Hopper, the uncommon Drifter compelled by an inner voice to search for a wife whose name and face he doesn’t know? Each threatens to upset the delicate power balance in this fragile world.

In deliciously dark prose, Tolkin winds a noose-like plot around this melee of despots, prophets, and rebels as they struggle for command and survival in a town that still manages to exert a magnetic force, even as a ruined husk.

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Advance Praise for NK3:

Award-winning writer, director, and producer Tolkin presents a postapocalyptic examination of nearfuture Los Angeles . . . Tolkin’s use of language evokes in the reader the feelings of confusion and mistrust experienced by the survivors. Readers looking for something reminiscent of World War Z and Cory Doctorow’s work should give this one a try.”—Booklist

Praise for Michael Tolkin:

Michael Tolkin is an L.A. Antonioni with a sense of humor.” New Yorker

One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood exposés: dark and mordant . . . A nightmare rendered with icy precision.” Los Angeles Times, on The Player

A pungently witty and entertaining read . . . A perceptive denunciation of contemporary life . . . Tolkin proves himself a master of black comedy.” Washington Post, on Among the Dead

So unexpected, so full of startling insights, that it seems to be blazing a fresh trail. At the same time, it reveals a character who is bound inevitably to a disastrous past.” Oregonian, on Under Radar

Startling . . . There is a fearlessness to Mr. Tolkin’s book that remains forceful.” New York Times, on Under Radar

In its wry, acerbic description of the world behind the studio gates Tolkin’s book recalls F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . and the vengeful comedy of Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust.” Philadelphia Inquirer, on The Player

L'autore

Michael Tolkin is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. His novels include The Player, The Return of the Player, Among the Dead, and Under Radar. For the film adaptation of The Player, Tolkin won the Writers Guild Award, the British Academy Award, the PEN Center USA West Literary Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime screenplay, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Most recently, he has been a consulting producer and writer for the Showtime series Ray Donovan.

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• Editore: Everyman
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0802125433
• ISBN 13: 9780802125439
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 300